Animals Interesting Facts
Just one cow weight.
gives off enough
The typical hen lays 19
harmful methane
dozen eggs a year.
gas in a single
have highly reflective aluminium day to fill around The left leg of a chicken in
antennae, which can catch the Sun, 400 liter bottles. more tender than the right
giving sudden spectacular glints far one.
Cows can have
brighter than any star or planet, last-
regional accents. Chickens can’t swallow while
ing for a few seconds. Such sudden
brightening followed by fading may A cow’s only they are upside down.
give the impression of something rap- sweat glands are The ostrich has a 46-foot long small in-
idly approaching and then receding. in its nose. testine.
More often than not, it is all these ob-
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs. Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top
jects of space, including stars and plan-
ets which people think to be UFOs. The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than speed.
Nevertheless, investigations and those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stom- When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its
studies are still on to say anything ach to break down as opposed to the hour that it takes to eyes.
conclusively. But till that happens and break down cow milk.
someone scientifically nullifies the Zebras can’t see the color orange.
A domestic cat can frighten a black bear
presence of aliens or extraterrestrial A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
to climb a tree.
life, don’t feel shy about believing in
aliens. You are actually in good com- In a fight between a polar bear and a There are more insects in ten square feet
pany of people with scientific and re- lion, the polar bear would win. of a rain forest than there are people in
ligious minds alike. Manhattan.
Bulls are color blind.
Let anyone say anything – whether The giraffe has the highest blood pres-
no life beyond earth or no UFOs to Mosquitoes have 47 teeth. sure of any animal.
puzzle us; the ultimate truth is that
The Poison Arrow frog has enough poi- A rat can go without water longer than a
we have limited scientific knowledge
son to kill 2,200 people. camel can.
and hence explorations of Mars and
the Moon go on to find life on those Emus can’t walk backwards. Ladybug spots fade as they grow older.
surfaces. For us, just as we consider
An elephant can be pregnant for up to The lion’s roar can be heard up to 5 miles
earthly creatures as ‘a brother,’ and
2 years. away.
’sister,’ why should we not talk about
an extraterrestrial brother? It would
still be part of creation, isn’t it? Various shapes of UFOs The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in
its head.
White cats with blue eyes are often deaf.
Cats have been domesticated for only about half as long as
More people are killed annually by donkeys than in air- dogs have…if you can really call a cat domesticated!
plane crashes.
The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish
Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
sheep with blue wool.
Americans spend around $3 billion on cat and dog food
India has 50 million monkeys. a year.
A goldfish has a memory The only dog that doesn’t
span of 3 seconds. have a pink tongue is the
Dolphins sleep with one chow.
eye open. Dogs and humans are the
By some unknown only animals with prostates.
means, an iguana can end US Secret Service sniffer
its own life. dogs are put up in five-star
The shell constitutes hotels during overseas presi-
12 percent of an egg’s dential visits.
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