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The Most Amazing Facts About Insects and Animals.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
The leech has 32 brains.
An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.
Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
Snakes can see through their eyelids.
When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect... each eye is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
Crocodiles never outgrow the pools in which they live. That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
Male anglerfish physically attach themselves to females early in life. The females continue to grow but the males don't. The males are parasites. Over time, they lose most of their inner organs and depend on the female's bodies to survive. Two males may live off one female.
The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark and sense movement.
Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
Crickets have ears on their front legs.
On a beach holiday, you are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.
A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
Shrimp can only swim backwards.
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
The pistol shrimp catches its prey by surprising it with a loud banging noise made with its claws.
The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back
A Platypus is one of two mammals that lays eggs and nurses it's young on milk - the other is an echidna.
Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
Pets like the sound of laughter, and most know when you're in pain.
It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
The female blue crab can lay up to one million eggs in a day.
Living organisms on Earth can thrive as deep as 2 miles down.
The slightest touch on a cat's whiskers will make its eyes blink.
When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.
The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once.
HONEYBEES have hairs on their eyes to help them collect pollen.
A CAT uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
The Dodo Bird was first discovered in 1507 - 100 years later it was hunted to extinction.
A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food.
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Spider-Goat - Scientists have managed to mix a goat with a spider to create a goat that produces spider's silk in its milk. The goats look completely normal, and they are in fact only 1/70,000th spider. By inserting just one spider gene into a goat's egg, the adult goat produces milk that can be processed to create an incredibly strong spider's silk fabric. The 'Biosteel' fabric is estimated to be five times as strong as steel, and about the same weight as cotton.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
The small Darwin's frog, which lives in Chile's cool forest streams, nurtures its young in an unusual manner. After the female lays 30 or so eggs, the male guards them for two weeks and then swallows the surviving ones. In the male's vocal pouch, the offspring develop until they're able to survive on their own and hop out.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
There are 1600 calories in a pint of Hippopotamus milk.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The sting of a Box Jelly can kill a human within three minutes.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female it's impregnating.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Ants are said to never cross a chalk line. So if you've got ants, draw a line on the floor with chalk or wherever the ants are coming in and see for yourself
Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three greyhound buses.
Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
Some scientists think that 10% of the animal biomass of the world is ants.
The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places
Snakes always keep their eyes open, even when they are asleep.
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
The koala does not need to drink liquids; it can obtain all of its liquids from eucalyptus leaves which are 50 percent water.
Ants don't sleep.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.
The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world. It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans.
The word kangaroo means "I don't know" in the language of Australian aborigines. When Captain Cook approached natives of the Endeavor River tribe to ask what the strange animal was, he got kangaroo for an answer.
If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be striped. Tiger stripes are like fingerprints, each individual cat’s markings are unique. And they’re not just hair, the stripes are in their skin.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Reading is Learning
The Most Amazing Facts About Insects and Animals.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
The membranes in a dog's nose, if unfolded and laid out, would be larger than the dog itself.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
The silkworm moth has eleven brains.
When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
The leech has 32 brains.
An eagles nest can weigh as much as two tons.
The common Black Ants and Wood Ants have no sting, but they can squirt a spray of formic acid. Some birds put ants in their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid which gets rid of the parasites.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $10 from the town.
Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential life span of 200 years.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Cats rarely meow at each other. Meowing is reserved for "speaking" with humans.
Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
Snakes can see through their eyelids.
When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge.
The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect... each eye is made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
Crocodiles never outgrow the pools in which they live. That means that if you put a baby croc in an aquarium, it would be little for the rest of its life.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
Male anglerfish physically attach themselves to females early in life. The females continue to grow but the males don't. The males are parasites. Over time, they lose most of their inner organs and depend on the female's bodies to survive. Two males may live off one female.
The hydra - a close relative of jellyfish and sea anemones, can regenerate or grow back if it's cut in half.
Mexico is the world's pig tapeworm capital with estimates that about 4 percent of all Mexicans have the adult tapeworm in their intestine.
Eighty-five percent of all life on Earth is Plankton.
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
Scientists found a whole new phylum of animal on a lobster's lip.
Jellyfish have no brains, yet they can tell light from dark and sense movement.
Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
Crickets have ears on their front legs.
On a beach holiday, you are more likely to die from a coconut falling on your head than a shark attack.
A dairy cow drinks 20-50 gallons of water a day - about as much as a full bathtub.
A dog's sense of smell is 1,000 times more sensitive than a humans.
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
Shrimp can only swim backwards.
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
The pistol shrimp catches its prey by surprising it with a loud banging noise made with its claws.
The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back
A Platypus is one of two mammals that lays eggs and nurses it's young on milk - the other is an echidna.
Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by a female leatherback sea turtle an average of two will survive their youth and grow to sexual maturity.
Pets like the sound of laughter, and most know when you're in pain.
It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a tablespoon of honey.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
The female blue crab can lay up to one million eggs in a day.
Living organisms on Earth can thrive as deep as 2 miles down.
The slightest touch on a cat's whiskers will make its eyes blink.
When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts, a cat's tail always points toward the north.
The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mamba snake is over 95%.
The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once.
HONEYBEES have hairs on their eyes to help them collect pollen.
A CAT uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
The Dodo Bird was first discovered in 1507 - 100 years later it was hunted to extinction.
A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food.
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
Spider-Goat - Scientists have managed to mix a goat with a spider to create a goat that produces spider's silk in its milk. The goats look completely normal, and they are in fact only 1/70,000th spider. By inserting just one spider gene into a goat's egg, the adult goat produces milk that can be processed to create an incredibly strong spider's silk fabric. The 'Biosteel' fabric is estimated to be five times as strong as steel, and about the same weight as cotton.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Hummingbirds consume half of their body weight in food every day.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
The small Darwin's frog, which lives in Chile's cool forest streams, nurtures its young in an unusual manner. After the female lays 30 or so eggs, the male guards them for two weeks and then swallows the surviving ones. In the male's vocal pouch, the offspring develop until they're able to survive on their own and hop out.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
There are 1600 calories in a pint of Hippopotamus milk.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The sting of a Box Jelly can kill a human within three minutes.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
The call of the humpback whale is louder than Concorde and can be heard from 500 miles away.
A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female it's impregnating.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Ants are said to never cross a chalk line. So if you've got ants, draw a line on the floor with chalk or wherever the ants are coming in and see for yourself
Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three greyhound buses.
Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
Some scientists think that 10% of the animal biomass of the world is ants.
The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places
Snakes always keep their eyes open, even when they are asleep.
Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs
The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
The koala does not need to drink liquids; it can obtain all of its liquids from eucalyptus leaves which are 50 percent water.
Ants don't sleep.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body sporting a magnificent red fin along its 50-foot length horselike face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.
The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world. It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans.
The word kangaroo means "I don't know" in the language of Australian aborigines. When Captain Cook approached natives of the Endeavor River tribe to ask what the strange animal was, he got kangaroo for an answer.
If a tiger loses all his hair, he’ll still be striped. Tiger stripes are like fingerprints, each individual cat’s markings are unique. And they’re not just hair, the stripes are in their skin.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
