Amazing Facts About Animal

If you’re looking for the most interesting list of animal facts, you’re at the right place! Here are 50 of the best fun & random facts about animals!

• Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
• A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
• Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
• A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
• The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
• The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
• Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
• Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
• On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.
• Deer have no gall bladders.
• There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
• Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
• In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
• The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
• The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
• Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
• The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
• The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.
• A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
• For every human in the world there are one million ants.
• If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
• If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
• Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
• The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
• The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
• Alligators can live up to 100 years.
• A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
• A housefly hums in the key of F.
• During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
• Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
• To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
• It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
• Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
• Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”
• The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
• Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
• Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
• Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
• Cows have four stomachs.
• An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
• The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
• A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
• A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
• At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long—no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
• The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
• There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!