Have fun with this and correct anything that might not sound right.



Animal Quick Facts

1. Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.

2. A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.

3. 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.

4. The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.

5. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.

6. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.

7. Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.

8. A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.

9. The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.

10. Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.

11. The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.

12. Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.

13. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.

14. Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.

15. A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.

16. A snail can sleep for 3 years.

17. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

18. The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.

19. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

20. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

21. In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.

22. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.

23. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

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

25. Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Oho Zoo in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.

26. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

27. Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.

28. It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.

29. Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.

30. Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.

31. On average, pigs live for about 15 years.

32. Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.

33. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

34. Male seahorses produce offspring.

35. Giraffes have no vocal cords.

36. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

37. An albatross can sleep while flying.

38. A mosquito has 47 teeth.

39. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

40. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.

41. Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

42. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

It's okay I can enjoy these animal facts by myself also

i think 300 times

A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.

oh, and there is a french chiken alive for 2 years and counting.... it has no head



29. realy!! fu*kin hell

Oh come on! Chicken with no head. Are you serious?

straight up. in france there is a chicken who had her head lopped off

i cant remember its name but it has its own social network page

google it, 2 years and counting. they feed it through the neck with a pepet

okay.. i got a few facts wrong, like it was alive from 1945 to 1947

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Wow that blows my whole thread on amazing facts doesn't it. Thanks for the info. I am going to check this out. Boy I need a life don't I!

well i thought there was one alive now but mike is all i can find

I just got done reading that link you offered. Simply amazing. Thanks for sharing that. Wow if that chicken didn't have a rough life then I don't know what rough life is.

I mean just think the last thing it saw was a axe falling towards him.

I just noticed that you were referring your info to/as a chicken, but then in your last sentence...you referred to it as "him"...so, NOW...would that make it a ROOSTER?

Ah yes I wasn't paying attention. I just read Mike from the other poster indicating a chicken with no head.

Here I am flowing along.

A rooster named Mike with no head is what I should have read.

Yea...I knew what you were talking about...just messing with ya! Have a great day!

You too! Have a good one

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Great thread! (slipped past me the first time)

Thanks for the compliment. When I have time I like to look for odd or unusual facts to keep people wondering, but in the end there are some minglers who hit back hard with even more odd facts, which makes it all the more interesting.

For example - the rooster named Mike with no head!

Could have sworn that Duck Hawks, while in dive, could break speeds of 127 mph. Pretty sure that was in the old 1971 Encyclopedia's we had.



Just so I can add at least one piece of good info, the average Great Horned Owl lives to be 6 years old. (I miss having Chester in the barn.)

Very interesting. Now I will be looking on google image for a horned owl just to see what they look like.

They are huge birds, Chester had at least a six foot wingspan.

Yes a very grand looking majestic beautiful animal. Really cool you had the opportunity to own such a pet at one time or if not owned to have seen it on a regular bases.