Animals

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Anteater
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.

Bird
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

Bull
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is - be it red or neon yellow.

Butterfly
The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby."

Camel
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Cat
Cat urine glows under a black-light.

Cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Chicken
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Cockroach
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation.

Cricket
Crickets hear through their knees.

Crocodile
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.

Dog
Dogs, like humans, are either right or left handed.

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints.

Dogs have about ten vocal sounds.

Domestication
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Donkey
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

Dragonfly
A dragonfly has a lifespan of twenty-four hours.

Duck
A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

Earthworm
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

Ferret
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Fish
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Frog
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Geese
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

Goldfish
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Hedgehog
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

Hippopotamus
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.

Hummingbird
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

Lion
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Mole
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

Ostrich
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Porcupine
Porcupines float in water.

Rat
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

Seagull
If you feed a seagull Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.

Shark
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

Sloth
The sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur.

Snails
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.

A snail can sleep for three years.

Termites
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.