Fun Animal Facts
- The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days!
- Snails can live up to 15 years!
- The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 feet in length!
- A slug has 4 noses!
- A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why!
- Many hamsters blink only one eye at a time!
- The Slave-Maker Ant raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae!
- The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs!
- A colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human!
- If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse!
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and can't find a mate!
- The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side!
- Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue!
- Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive!
- If NASA sent birds into space, they would soon die. They need gravity to swallow!
- Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey the national bird of America!
- When it comes time to give birth, the female shark loses her appetite, so she won't be tempted to eat her own pups!
- Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops!
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
- The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito!
- The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
- Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were!
- Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off!
- The most expensive cow in the world was sold at $1.3 million!
- If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will turn white!
- The kangaroo rat can last longer without water than the camel!
- Dogs have four toes on their hind feet and five on their front feet!
- On average, there are 300 billion neurons in the octopus' brain!
- Honeybees fly at 15 miles per hour!
- The average cost of raising a medium size dog to age eleven is $16,400!
- The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day!
- A cat's jaws cannot move sideways!
- Honeybees never sleep!
- In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are sleeping!
- The smallest known dinosaur is Compsognathus!
- Baby rattlesnakes are born without rattles!
- Bluebirds can't see the color blue!
- Most elephants weight less than the tongue of the blue whale!
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any animal!
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body!
- When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut!
- The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees!
- The shrimp's heart is in its head!
- The longest flight of a chicken is about 13 seconds!
- Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes!
- Cats can hear ultrasound!
- Jaguars are frightened by common dogs!
- The goldfish has a memory span of 3 months, not 3 seconds!
- Ants never sleep!
- Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow!
- Dalmatians are born without spots!
- Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always all the same sex!
- Humans and bonobo monkeys are the only species who have face-to-face sex!
- A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly!
- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
- Polar bears, with transparent fluffy fur, actually have black skin!
- Some kinds of sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world, most other kinds give live birth!
- The blue whale produces the loudest sound of any animal at 188 decibels!
- The eyes of the chameleon can move independently!
- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump!
