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Animal & Insect Facts
Bees have five eyes.
Wolves breed only once a year; most dogs breed twice
Cats can't taste sweets.
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A baby bat is called a pup.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A Chow Chow has a black tongue.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
A chicken takes 21 days to hatch.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Alektorophobia - Fear of chickens.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Dogs breathe 10-30 breaths per minute.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight
A chicken can have 4 or 5 toes on each foot
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
It takes a hen 24-26 hours to lay an egg.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
Tylenol and chocolate are poisonous to cats.
It takes 4 lbs.+ of feed to make 1 dozen eggs
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A chickens' heart beats 280-315 times a minute
The average housefly lives for only two weeks.
A lions roar can be heard from five miles away.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
Chickens were domesticated about 8000 years ago
The chicken can travel up to 9 miles per hour.
The latin name for chicken is Gallus Domesticus
It is illegal to dock your dog's ears in the UK.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In addition to the wolf (Canis lupus ), the genus Canis also contains the domestic dog, the coyote, the golden jackal, the black backed jackal, the side-striped jackal and the dingo
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are over 150 varieties of domestic chickens.
A duck's quack will not echo and no body knows why.
All the swans in England are property of the Queen.
A rooster takes 18-20 breaths a minute, a hen 30-35
Adult male wolves average ninety-five to one hundred pounds and females about fifteen pounds less
A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
There are over 35 breeds that come from the Mastiff.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A Chihuahua is as closely related to a Wolf as a Husky.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Mother cats teach their kittens to use the litter box.
Squirrels forget where they hid about half of their nuts.
North America has the highest dog population in the world.
The wolf is the largest in the wild canine family
The closest living relative of the t-rex is the chicken.
The coyote evolved separately from the wolf over 500,000 years ago
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
The wolf has 42 teeth
Cats bury their feces to cover their trails from predators.
The wolf has rounded ears
In Great Britain, black cats are thought to bring good luck.
Tigers have round pupils and yellow irises (except for the blue eyes of white tigers). Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
"Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this - one dog does not change a bone with another."
- Adam Smith
