50+ Most amazing facts about animals and birds

             
              50+ Most amazing facts about animals and birds 

1. The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

2. All polar bears are left handed.

3. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

4. Only the males are called peacocks. Females are called peahens.

5. A cheetah does not roar like a lion; instead it purrs like a cat (meow).

6. Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.

7. Alberta a city of Canada is the largest rat-free populated area in the world.

8. Elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

9. Birds are immune to the heat of chili peppers.

10. A cheetah can run 76 kilometers per hour (46 miles per hour).

11. Some cats are allergic to humans.

12. Goliath frog is the largest frog in the world.

13. Tigers have striped skin as well. Each pattern is as unique as a fingerprint.

14. A butterfly has 6 Legs & 2 Pair of Wings & has 12,000 eyes.

15. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

16. Crane sleeps standing on one leg.

17. The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

18. Human birth control pill also works on gorillas.

19. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

20. Ants don’t sleep.

21. Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.

22. The dangerous Sharks cannot see. In fact, they are very sensitive to sound.

23. For every human in the world there are one million ants. No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

24. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale.

25. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.

26. Sticking out its tongue is not possible for crocodile.

27. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.

28. Only one bird can rotate its head to 270 degrees and that is owl.

29. Alligators generally live between 30 & 50 years.

30. Kiwis are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

31. The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.

32. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.

33. The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.

34. Flutterby was the original name for butterfly.

35. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.

36. If there is one breed of dog that bites humans more than any other breed then it is German Shepherds.

37. Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.

38. A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

39. There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

40. On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

41. Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”

42. Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.

43. A group of owls is called a parliament.

44. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

45. Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

46. Hippos can run faster than humans.

47. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.

48. The ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed.

49. There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats.

50. A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.