Random Animal Facts

    230 facts tagged with Animal Facts

    Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
    14
    Sir Nils Olav
    Sir Nils Olav
    Norway has a king penguin as Colonel-in-Chief of their royal guard.
    23
    Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
    10
    The Firefly Is Not a Fly
    The firefly is not actually a fly, but a beetle.
    16
    The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
    151
    The Reason Dogs Turn in Circles
    The Reason Dogs Turn in Circles
    Dogs turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this turns long grass into a bed.
    54
    15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
    1
    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
    217