Amazing Facts About Animals

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1. Although male seals are called bulls and female seals are called cows, their young are quite illogically called pups.

2. Experiments with ants have shown that they are capable of lifting stones fifty times their own weight and pulling loads three hundred times their own weight.

3. Crickets hear through their knees, cicadas hear through their stomachs.

4. Asses, horses and Zebras all clean themselves in an unconventional way- they roll in dust.

5. Rats can survive without water longer than camels.

6. If called upon to swim, elephants can move through the water surprisingly well.

7. Dolphins sleep with on eye open.

8. You can tell a fish’s age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk.

9. The common garden Spider has about six hundred silk glands and can lay up to six hundred eggs at one time.

10. Domestic cats spend only one third of their lives awake, compared with their owners who spend only one third of their lives asleep.

11.Ducks only lay eggs early in the morning.

12. The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.

13. Horses can fall asleep standing up.

14. If they are near water raccoons often wash their food before they eat it.

15. The humming bird can only use its feet for perching. It is not able to place them one in front of the other in order to walk.

16. Moths cannot eat because they have neither mouths nor stomachs.

17. Monarch butterflies migrate more than 3000 kilometers every year.

18. The grasshopper’s legs are able to walk on their own even when detached from the insect’s head and body.

19. Horses do not have a collar bones.

20. Although the frigate bird lives on fish it is unable to swim or land on the water.

21. Cockroaches have remained unchanged on earth for about 250,000,000 years.

22. A fly’s eye is designed with over 4000 facets which enable it to see an enemy approaching from almost any direction without moving.

23. The so-called Prairie dog is a rodent.

24. Sea otters have not one, but two coats of fur.

25. A Kiwi’s beak is so sensitive that it can detect the presence of worms deep in the soil.

26. The only animal able to turn its stomach inside out is the starfish.

27. An owl cannot see in total darkness.

28. Birds are sometimes able to set their own broken wings.

29. Even though they look so fierce gorillas never kill in order to eat. They are strict vegetarians.

30. Every night a barn owl will eat more that its own weight in food. It later disposes of the pieces it can’t manage to eat.

31. A Yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow and makes a grunt like a pig.

32. There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.

33. All the ants that you see working frantically in ant armies are female.

34. The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.

35. The Guinea-pig is not a pig and does not come from Guinea. It is a South American rodent.

36. A zebra has white stripes not black ones.

37. A cat can draw its claws back into sheaths in its paws.

38. The silkworm is not a worm. It is a caterpillar.]

39. Bears climb telegraph poles in search of honey. The humming of the wires confuses them into thinking that there are bee hives on top of the poles.

40.Whereas dogs wag their tails as a sign of welcome, cats wag theirs as a sign of warning.

Amazing Facts

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1. If your hair should suddenly stand on end for no apparent reason, there is a strong likelihood that you are about to be struck by lightning.

2.The most popular insects eaten by the people of different cultures around the world are grasshoppers, beetles, crickets, locusts, caterpillars, termites and ants.

3.Tomatoes were originally called ‘love apples’.

4.Women of the Asian Kirghiz tribe face instant divorce if they dare to mention their husband’s names.

5.Spain is named after the Carthaginian word meaning ‘land of rabbits’.

6.The dollar sign is a modified version of the figure eight which used to be stamped on the old
Spanish ‘pieces of eight’.

7. On the Caribbean island of Haiti the local buses are called ‘Tap-Taps’ because of the noise
made by their diesel engines.

8. Boxwood is one of the few woods that actually sink in water.

9. In Spain you must always place your right foot in a boat before your left. To step in the
other way is to incur almost certain disaster.

10. Oaks and Poplars are struck by lightning more frequently than any other trees in England.

11. Modern binoculars are more powerful than Galileo’s telescope.

12. A liter of vinegar is heavier in winter than in summer.

13. Although you may fell warmer drinking alcohol your body temperature actually falls as a
result of drinking it.

14. During your lifetime you might expect to breathe about two and a half time the amount of
air that would fill a large airship.

15. Shaving with an electric shaver in fact uses less energy than shaving with hand razor and
hot water.

16. One fifth of the oxygen we inhale is used by the cells in the brain.

17. At the age of ninety our hearts are pumping half the amount of blood they were pumping
when we were twenty.

18. Early Spaniards used to clean their teeth with urine.
19. Five tones of rock are required to yield a piece of gold the size of a trouser button.

20. The left side of your brain controls the right side of your body and vice versa.

21. Denim material was first made in the city of Nimes, in France. Since the fabric came from
Nimes it was originally called ‘de Nimes’ or ‘denim’ in English.

22. Half the world’s wealth is owned by four countries whose total population is less than 15
per cent of the world’s total.

23. The world’s most popular hobby is stamp collection.

24. Saudi Arabia imports sand from Scotland and camels from North Africa.

25. Bungalows are named after the Hindi word ‘bangla’ which means ‘belonging to Bengal’.

26. When Eskimos buy refrigerators they often use them to stop their food from freezing.

27. There are more lakes in Canada than in the rest of the world put together.

28. Lord’s cricket ground was originally in Dorset Square.

29. Cyanide poisoning can be produced from the stones of plums, apricots and cherries, as well
as from apple pips.

30. Blind people who have been blind from birth cannot dream sights but they dream sounds
instead.

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32. Girls tend to sleep more soundly than boys.

33. Hot water pipes freezes more easily than pipes carrying cold water.

34. The Jeep got its name from its original initials G.P, which stood for General Purpose
vehicle.

35. The nail on your middle finger grows fastest. Your thumb nail is the slowest to grow.

36. There is a city in the Sahara called Tegazza which is built entirely of salt.

37. The rainbow trout makes its nest from pebbles which it carries in its mouth.

38. The pineapple is a berry and has nothing to do with pines or apples, except for its name.

39. There are claimed to be more ghosts per square kilometer in England than in any other
country on earth.
40. Soya beans are used in the manufacture of glue, paint, plastics and explosives.

41. A cow’s moo was used as a unit of distance for more than two thousand years in India.

42. We die more quickly from lack of sleep than from lack of food.

43. Man catches thirty different diseases transmitted by the common house fly.

44. Tongue prints are as unique as finger prints.

45. It is possible to mix oil and water. All you have to do is add a little soap.

46. Palm trees growing in the Seychelles Islands produce double coconuts that weight in
excess of 18 kilos.

47. The thirteenth day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of
the week.

48. Three 25 watt produce less light than one 75-watt bulb.

49. Abraham Lincoln was the first US President to be assassinated.

50. Benjamin Hall, the eighteenth century politician, weighed 158 kilograms, which explains
why the bell named after him is called Big Ben.