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Animal & Insect Facts 2
It is possible to lead a cow up stairs...but not down stairs.
The first dogs to hunt in packs and the first small companion breeds were probably bred in ancient China. Written records more than 4,000 years old from China show that dog trainers were held in high esteem and that kennel masters raised and looked after large numbers of dog.
Wolves possess upwards of two hundred million olfactory cells
What marine mammal is singing longer songs?
Whales. British scientist Andrew Foote reports that the calls of killer whales off the coast of the United States have lengthened significantly. The whales need to sing longer to be heard over engine noise from whale-watching boats.
A dog's temperature is between 100.2-102.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
Today there are about 100 distinct breeds of the domestic cat.
The wolf has a broad heavy muzzle
A Chihuahua is the oldest breed of dog native to North America.
A kangaroo can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground.
The wolf has extremely powerful jaws capable of generating 1,500 psi pressure
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
The first cat show was in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
The wolf has one of the widest ranges of size, shape and color of any mammal in North America
The average cat food meal is the equivalent to about five mice.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
A chickens' body temperature normally runs at 102-103 degrees F.
Genetic mutation created the domestic cat which is tame from birth.
There are approximately 450 million chickens in the United States.
The basenji, an African wolf dog, is the only dog that cannot bark.
A dog carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are born.
A Greyhound can run up to 45 miles per hour for short periods of time.
The greatest number of yolks in one chicken egg is nine.
The wolf lives in a pack, family oriented social structure
Cats are sometimes born with extra toes. This is called polydactyl.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow
to be one pound
Do Not Feed ...
avocados which can pose severe health problems to birds
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
A group of crows is called a "murder".
The record for a chicke laying the most eggs: seven in one day.
The male seahorse is the one who gets pregnant and delivers the baby seahorses
The largest chicken egg on record was nearly 12 oz., measuring 12 1/4" around.
The longest distance flown by any chicken is 301 1/2 feet. (as the crow flies)
Mating season for the wolf occurs in February and March.
A cat uses it's whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
The largest earthworm on record was found in South
Africa and measured 22 feet.
The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
An egg starts growing into a chick when it reaches a temperature of 86 degrees F.
Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmatian dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
The temperature of milk when it is coming out of
a cow is about 36 degrees celcius.
A wolf's tail hangs while the tail of the dog tends to be held high and is often curly
Charles Cruft, founder of the Crufts dog show, started his career by selling dog food.
All domestic chickens can be genetically traced to Gallus Gallus, The Red Jungle Fowl
Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Greek mythology, guarded the gates to the underworld.
Chickens and turkeys are known to cross-breed, these breeds are known as "Turkins".
Chickens lay different colored eggs,
from white, to brown, to green, to pink, to blue
A dewlap is the pendulous folds of skin on the neck, like you would see on a Bloodhound.
The platypus, the two-foot high Australian mammal that lays eggs, has: - a duck-like snout and is often called the duckbilled platypus - web feet, on the back of which is a protuberance that ejects poison
- a tail that a beaver could mistake for its own
- an appetite as hearty as a pig's - a radar-like mechanism in its bill that can locate mussels, its favorite dinner entree
"Until he extends his circle of passion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace."
- Albert Schweitzer
