Animal Facts
There are 263 Animal Facts
- 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
- A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
- A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
- A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
- A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
- A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
- A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
- A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
- A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
- A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
- A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
- A group of frogs is called an army.
- A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
- A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water
- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
- A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.
- A killer whale's heart beats 30 times a minute under water, 60 times a minute on the surface.
- A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
- A lion's roar can be heard from more than five miles away.
- A male baboon can kill a leopard.
- A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
- A mole can dig a hole 300 feet deep in one night.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
- A moth has no stomach.
- A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
- A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
- A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
- A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
- A roach can live up to nine days without its head.
- A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
