Interesting animal facts

(Adapted from an article by “David the Dog man” from the Daily Mail)

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

• Polar Bears can smell a human being from 20 miles away.

• Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

• Starfishes doesn’t have brains.{{more}}

• It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

• Tigers have striped skin as well as striped fur.

• Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

• A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it dies of starvation.

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

• Tarantulas can go for up to 2 years without eating.

• Anteaters can stick their tongue out up to 160 times a minute.

• Mother tarantulas kill 99 per cent of the babies they hatch.

• Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.

• The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.

• Flamingoes can eat only with their heads upside down.

• Owls are the only birds that see the colour blue.

• Pigeons are the only birds that can drink water without having to raise their heads to swallow.

• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.

•  The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

• Ants can survive for 2 weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated.

For further information, contact: Dr. Collin Boyle
Unique Animal Care Co. Ltd.
Tel: 456 4981
Website:www.uniqueanimalcare.com