Monday 31 December 2012

FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS


Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

-Butterflies taste with their feet.

-A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!

-After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!

-Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!

-All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth

-Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves

-After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old and their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month.

-A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

-The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water

-An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.

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

-A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

-The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr!

-The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.

-Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink!


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