Animals Interesting Facts

* Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
* Cows can have regional accents
* A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
* Bonobos are the only non human primates that engage in oral sex, tongue kissing, and face-to-face genital sex.
* In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.
* US Secret Service sniffer dogs are put up in five-star hotels during overseas presidential visits.
* Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
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Bulls are color blind.
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A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
* Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
* The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
* Emus can't walk backwards.
* A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
* A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
* A group of owls is called a parliament.
* A group of ravens is called a murder.
* A group of bears is called a sleuth.
* Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
* A baby oyster is called a spat.
* Some fleas have split penises like a Y shape
* An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years
* Chickens can't swallow while they are upside down.
* The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
* A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
* A mule won't sink in quicksand but a donkey will.
* More people are killed annually by donkeys than in airplane crashes.
* Animal breeders in Russia once claimed to have bred sheep with blue wool.
* Penguins are the only bird that can leap into the air like porpoises.
* India has 50 million monkeys.
* By some unknown means, an iguana can end its own life.
* Americans spend around $3 billion for cat and dog food a year.
* Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
* The shell constitutes 12 percent of an egg's weight.
* A squid has 10 tentacles.
* A snail's reproductive organs are in its head.
* When a horned toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes.
* The typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year.
* The ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine.
* A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
* A swan is the only bird with a penis
* The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
* The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
* Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
* The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
* Zebras can't see the color orange.
* There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
* The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afgan hound.
* A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
* The fat molecules in goat milk are 5 times smaller than those found in cow milk. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to breakdown as opposed to the hour that it takes to break down cow milk.

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