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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Amazing facts about animal. Additional

Did you know ...?
  • Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
  • The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
  • Insects do not make noises with their voices!
    The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
  • The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are: The rabbit and the parrot.
  • A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
  • A snail can sleep for 3 years!
  • A cat can run about 20 miles per hour when it grows up.
  • A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
  • A cheetah can run 46 miles per hour - that is really fast!
    The fastest human being only runs about 18 miles per hour.
  • The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
  • Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES?
  • Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
  • A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
  • A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
  • A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
  • A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
  • A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  • The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
  • The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, and it can weigh more than 100 pounds!
  • The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
  • Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
  • At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Amazing facts about animal.

I have some fun facts about animals that' s very interesting so I 'll share in here and hope you will enjoy with these fun facts !!!
Let's go !!!




Did you know ...?



  • A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. Wow!








  • Australia has a population of 17 million people and 150 million sheep.
  • The population of New Zealand is 4 million people and 70 million sheep.






  • A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!
 
  • It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.




 
 
  • Is a zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Any guesses? Well, it’s white with black stripes.
 
  •  A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard up to a mile away.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds.
 
 
 
 
 
  • In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited. 
  • The hairs on a polar bear are not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white





  • Here is some news for the left-handed people – they are not the only ones, as all polar bears are left-handed.


  • An ostrich’s brain is smaller than its eye.


  • The small intestine of an ostrich measures up to 46-feet in length.




  • Turtles can breathe through their butts.

  • The animal that lived longest of all was a turtle. It lived to become the respectable age of 188 years.





  •  Koalas are excellent swimmers.












  • In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.