Animal Facts

Tags: Cat, Feline, Kitten, Growth, Hormone, Sleep, Animal

Fact Page: One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 14:28:56
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Dog, Canine, Pet, Animal, Bacteria, Carpet

Fact Page: A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
Date Added: 2011-04-08 12:11:17
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Sheep, Agriculture, Snow, Farm, Interesting, Random

Fact Page: Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
Date Added: 2011-04-07 09:31:43
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Age, Crow, Bird

Fact Page: The world's oldest crow is 118 years (estimated age).
Date Added: 2011-04-04 07:51:08
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Cats use their sense of taste to determine which foods are good for them. Cats are also not very sensitive to the taste of salt. Some experts say that this is because they get all the salt they need from their meat-based diet. Compared to humans, the cat’s sense of taste is weak. We have 9,000 tastebuds, while they have only 473. The preferred temperature for feline food is 86 degrees Fahrenheit–the same temperature as the cat's tongue.

Tags: Cat, Taste, Tastebud, Human

Fact Page: Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
Date Added: 2011-03-02 07:56:41
Fact Category: Animal Fact

The scorpion's body is covered with a hard layer of chitin, which forms an armor to protect against desiccation and predators. The scorpion's exoskeleton contains a number of raised ridges and valleys, called "apodemes", which serve as attachment spots for the internal muscles. These muscles are attached in such a manner that they can curl the limbs and pull them inwards, but cannot pull them outward. To straighten its appendages, a scorpion must force blood into them, using hydraulic pressure to push them into a straightened position.

Now if the tail is held in readiness to sting, as one would expect, then there is probably some tension between the hydraulic pressure tending to straighten it out and the muscles, which would ten to curl it toward the body. Now alcohol could cause a sudden dehydration of the body fluids along the back, leading to a loss of hydraulic pressure. Then the already-tensed muscles would pull the tail into a tight curl, inadvertently causing the stinger to strike the scorpion. Whether the stinger is capable of penetrating the tough carapace on the top of the scorpion's main, cephalothorax section is another issue entirely.

Another possibility is that the alcohol simply causes a sharp contraction of the muscles exposed to it, which the hydraulic pressure would be unprepared to counter.

Tags: Scorpion, Alcohol, Insect, Bug, Interesting

Fact Page: Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.
Date Added: 2011-02-27 08:54:54
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Penis, Dork, Whale, Animal

Fact Page: A dork is a whale's penis.
Date Added: 2011-02-23 15:02:01
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Hearing, Ear, Fly, Insect, Bug

Fact Page: Flies are deaf.
Date Added: 2011-02-07 10:11:51
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Orgasm, Sex, Pig, Funny, Weird, Interesting

Fact Page: A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Date Added: 2011-01-26 11:52:28
Fact Category: Animal Fact

It is stuck to the top of it's mouth.

Tags: Crocodile, Tongue

Fact Page: A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
Date Added: 2011-01-07 14:17:20
Fact Category: Animal Fact

The Compsognathus lived in Europe during the late Jurassic, and was about the size of a chicken. Compsognathus is believed to have eaten insects, lizards and other small animals.

Tags: Dinosaur, Jurassic, Compsognathus

Fact Page: The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus.
Date Added: 2010-11-29 17:42:40
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Dog, Toe, Foot, Paw

Fact Page: Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
Date Added: 2010-11-29 07:34:53
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Cat, Jaw

Fact Page: A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
Date Added: 2010-11-12 06:30:44
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Bee, Honey Bee, Speed, Bug

Fact Page: Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
Date Added: 2010-11-07 16:58:45
Fact Category: Animal Fact

The hungry little insect is attracted to the minerals and moisture from the tear ducts - but that's not the only moisture they like to devour.

Tags: Cockroach, Gross, Weird, Disgusting, Eyelash, Children, Brazil

Fact Page: In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
Date Added: 2010-10-27 05:16:15
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Cow, Agriculture, Farm

Fact Page: The most expensive cow in the world was sold $1.3 million.
Date Added: 2010-10-20 09:22:39
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Katydid, Bug, Insect

Fact Page: The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
Date Added: 2010-10-15 05:44:42
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Turkey, Bird, North America, Benjamin Franklin, USA, United States, US

Fact Page: The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
Date Added: 2010-09-27 18:24:14
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Shark, Birth, Appetite

Fact Page: When it comes time to give birth, the female shark loses her appetite so she won't be tempted to eat her own pups.
Date Added: 2010-09-23 17:06:27
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Hummingbird, Penny, Weight

Fact Page: A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Date Added: 2010-06-29 19:43:50
Fact Category: Animal Fact