- A 70-pound octopus can squeeze through a hole no bigger than a silver dollar because it has no backbone.
- An African ostrich egg weighs almost 30 pounds and is so strong that a 200-pound man can stand on it without it breaking.
- A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
- The largest rodent in the world, the capybara from South America, can weigh over 170 pounds.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- If a female ferret goes into heat but can't get any sex, she can die.
- The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.
- The longest recorded life-span of a tapeworm, to date, is 35 years.
- Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms, this is equal to a 6-foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.
- Hummingbirds don't walk, but they are the only birds that can fly backwards.
- The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 feet in length.
- The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal, and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.
- The leg muscles of a locust are about 1,000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
- The air temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in 14 seconds and adding 40.
- Penguins can jump almost 6 feet into the air.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- There are more sheep in New Zealand than people.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- Ants cannot chew their food; they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
- The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Hummingbirds don't walk, but they are the only birds that can fly backwards.
- Bengal tigers are the most water loving of the big cats. They will even chase prey into the water.
- Slugs have 4 noses.
- The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.
- A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.
- When it is born, a kangaroo is only 1 inch long.
- Armadillos, opossums, and sloths spend about 80 percent of their lives sleeping.
- The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knees.
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- Some millipedes (Apheloria Virginiensis) are able to secrete cyanide.
- Dolphins, like humans, have sex for pleasure.
- Panamanian golden frogs don't have outside ears – their lungs pick up sound waves and direct them to their eardrums.
- The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
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The above facts have been collected from the internet. While I've tried hard to keep them as accurate as possible, you may want to make a detailed research if you think some are false. Please let me know about such instances so that I can keep the article free from any mistakes. Thanks!
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