The Book of Random

Animals Part 2

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More random Animal Facts!

(A/N: Sorry if you don't like animals, but lots of this stuff is really cool!)

*this is mostly copied and pasted, no copyright intended*

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Chapter 12: Animals Part 2

 A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.

The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times.

At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.

 Fireflies are the only creatures that give off light without generating heat.

Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.

Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.

Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.

 It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.

A rodent's teeth never stop growing.

Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.

The hippopotamus is born underwater.

 A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.

 An elephant's trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk from it per day.

The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.

 The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.

 A dog's smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than an average human's.

 Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.

 Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

The starfish is the only animal capable of turning its stomach inside-out

 Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.

 About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.

 Sharks are immune to cancer!

 Alligators cannot move backwards.

 The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.

 Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.

 A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

 Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.

The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h.

 In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

 The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.

 Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Starfish have eight eyes - one at the end of each leg.

 After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

 Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine!

 Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.

 Cats can hear ultrasound.

 Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.

 Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.

 A group of frogs is called an army..

 Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.

Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton. 

Hippos attract mates by urinating and defecating.

 There are roughly twenty four thousand species of butterflies.

 Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.

 Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

Snakes do not blink.

A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.

 There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the world.

 The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.

A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.

The average dolphin eats one third of its weight on food each day.

 Horses can't vomit.

Before they're even born, sand tiger sharks eat their twin brothers and sisters!

Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).

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