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Chapter 11: Animals Part 1
A goldfish has the memory span of about 3 seconds
Elephants purr when they eat
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been chopped off.
The average human accidently eats spiders in their life.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Giraffes have to sleep standing up
Ant's never sleep
A giraffes heart is as large as a humans head.
The shrimps heart is in its head
The worlds largest amphibian is the giant salamande, it can frow up to 5 ft in length.
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.
Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
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.
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.
Alligators can live up to 100 years.
A single elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
A housefly hums in the key of F.
During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
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.
Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs and humans
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!
Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.
The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.
Tigers have striped skin as well as their fur.
Hippos can run faster than humans!
Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
A moth has no stomach.
George Washington's teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.
If you cut off a snail's eye, it will grow a new one.
The ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed.
Starfish have no heart, brain, or eyes!
On average, cows poop 16 times per day!
The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.
The most poisonous fish in the world is the Stone fish.
Killer Whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.
We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
Fireflies do not bite or have pincers. Fireflies are harmless, they don't even carry diseases.
No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.
The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
A whale's heart beats only nine times a minute.
Elephants are covered with hair.
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