· Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot
· Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet
· A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched
· Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become
· Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways
· A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away
· Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
· Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music
· Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it
· Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water
· Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them
· The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
· To make just one pound of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million seperate flowers
· Cuban bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird, only 57 mm (2¼ in) long and half of this is tail and bill. It weighs less than 2 g and is the smallest warm-blooded animal
· The color white in the animal kingdom means 'danger' or 'caution'. On safari in Africa it is recommended not to wear white because it can scare away the animals
· Cockroach can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom
· The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second
· The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war
· The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot
· Did you know that a giraffe can kill a lion with one kick
· A sea urchin walks on the tips of its teeth
· Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs
· Perfume is frequently made from - among other things- a slippery, musky substance called Ambergris which is vomited up by certain species of whales from time to time
· The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton. The male, however, is only a few millimeters long, and spends his whole life attached to her nose
· The Panda bear is expected to become extinct by about 2040, barring a drastic change of events
Contributed by asharaj53 @ gmail.com
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