25 Amazing Facts about Animals
While reading, I’ve found these things about animals and I’m really amazed!
1. The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.
2. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
3. Slugs have 4 noses.
4. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
5. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
6. The catfish has the most taste buds of all animals, having over 27,000 of them.
7. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
8. Rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
9. The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
10. The cockroach’s favorite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
11. The waste produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours.
12. Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
13. Camels chew in a figure 8 pattern.
14. Scientists in Brazil have reported the emergence of a species of super-flea; they are bigger than cockroaches and can jump 20 feet (6 m).
15. A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
16. Starfish don’t have brains.
17. A kangaroo can jump up to 10 feet (3 m) high and leap up to 26 feet (8 m).
18. A jellyfish is 95% water.
19. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
20. When sharks take a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.
21. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
22. Termites are affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud music.
23. Koalas never drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
24. The giant squid, found usually in the deep reaches of the oceans, has the largest eye of any animal.
25. Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
photo: Erik J.
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