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Animal & Insect Facts 5
If you took all the earthworms that are under a typical football field and lined them up, the line would be 94 miles long. They will move ten tons of dirt in a year.
Cockfighting was illegal in Oklahoma until 1963, when a judge ruled that chickens are not animals and therefore unprotected by anticruelty laws. ~U.S. News & World Report, 6 December 1999
Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds - they find it via the polarization of ultraviolet light from areas of blue sky.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
How long do crocodiles live? Quite a while! Some species of crocodile live an average of 70 years and a few individual crocodiles have reportedly lived more than a hundred years.
A rooster will attack anything that he thinks will harm the hens ( that includes humans ). Their spurs (located at the back of their leg ) can cause a very painful puncture wound.
Contrary to popular belief, only one alligator has ever been found in the New York City sewer system. The 125 pound (57 kilogram) alligator was pulled out by four boys way back in 1935
Even though a female butterfly can secrete only about 1/4 millionth of an ounce of her perfume into the air, a male butterfly can smell it and track her down from seven miles away.
How many hearts does an earthworm have? Five. You wouldn't think something that simple and (usually) small would need five hearts, but it has them. All pump blood just as our single heart does.
Laid head to claw, KFC chickens consumed worldwide would stretch some 275,094 miles. They would circle the Earth at the equator 11 times or stretch from the Earth approximately 50,094 miles past the moon.
Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
Did you know that some breeds of chickens can lay colored eggs? Sure enough, the Ameraucana and Araucana can lay eggs colored in shades of green or blue, depending on the breed and it's ancestry.
The Hirudo leech has three jaws with 100 teeth on each
jaw, making 300 teeth in all. The Amazon leech uses a
different method of sucking blood. They insert a long
proboscis into the victim as opposed to biting.
Why do ostriches bury their heads in the sand? They actually don't. In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of eighty years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).
The gestation period for the wolf is 63 days
Wolf pups are born in April and May
The average litter size for the wolf is 4 to 7 pups
Litter size for the wolf depends on nutrition factors as well as fitness of the female
Rubber Snakes And Turtles
When researchers in Louisiana placed rubber snakes and turtles on highways and observed the behavior of 22,000 motorists, they discovered that 87% of the drivers purposely avoided hitting the creatures, but 6% of drivers went out of their way to "kill" the rubber animals with their tires.
The fastest fish is the cosmopolitan sailfish, which has been clocked, in short bursts, at 60 miles per hour. The provincial sailfish, on the other hand, has little need for speed, and is content to hang out on the back porch and watch the grass grow.
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.
-Bruce Schimmel
