Weird & Interesting Facts
| Published: 24th August 2006 21:27 |
Did you know......... some strange and interesting facts
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Emus have double-plumed feathers, and they lay emerald/forest green eggs.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
A group of geese on the ground is gaggle, a group of geese in the air is skein.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
Brazoria County in Southeast Texas is the only county in the United States and Canada to have every kind of poisonous snake found in those two countries.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.
The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
Stag beetles have stronger mandibles than humans.
When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
The Mola Mola, or Ocean Sunfish, lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time.
A fullgrown bear can run as fast as a horse.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
The closest relative to the manatee is the elephant. Scientists think the elephant crawled back into the sea to become a manatee. Source: Joshua Allen
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
The Sumatran tiger has the most stripes of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian tiger has the fewest stripes.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. Source: MangoPete
The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet. Source: Jay Littman
Cats can hear ultrasound.
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