Some animals are wonderful, while some others just… aren’t. All of them though are essential for environmental stability.
Let’s find out more about them!
- Dolphins love their mum very much: They stay with them for 3 to 8 years!
- They can live up to 50 years.
- Dolphins have 2 stomachs.
- Comparing the ratio size of dolphins’ brain size, they are the 2nd smartest mammals after humans.
- Dolphins don’t chew their food since they only use their teeth to catch their prey.
- They give each other… names!
- Killer whales (aka Orca) are actually dolphins.
- And actually they are the largest kind of dolphins!
- Some dolphins are really fast: They can swim at 20 miles per hour!
- The largest whale in the world was the blue whale and weighed 30 tonnes.
- On the other side, the smallest one was the pygmy sperm whale and weighed 3.5m
- Whales’ closest relative is… hippopotamus!
- Only 1 hemisphere of a whales’ brain is asleep at one time.
- According to scientists whales are able to teach, learn, co-operate, grieve, and scheme.
- They communicate through a series of “songs”.
- Dory in the film “Finding Nemo” is believed that could speak… whale!
- Female seals live longer than males.
- Seals come to the land only to mate molt, give birth and escape from predators such as killer whales and sharks.
- Some seals can hold their breath underwater for about 2 hours.
- Seals can also sleep underwater.
- You can find the smallest seals in the Galapagos Islands.
- Seal parents can recognize each other even if they don’t see each other for 4 years.
- Sharks embryos attack each other.
- They have six senses.
- The longest fish worldwide is a kind of shark.
- It is 40 feet long.
- Some female sharks stay pregnant for a long time. More specifically for about 2 years.
- Great white sharks have a stronger bite than jungle cats.
- But flashes of lightning are more dangerous than sharks!
- Female sharks can be pregnant from more than one male!
- Sharks prefer to attack men.
- Sharks’ skeletons are made of cartilage and muscle. No bones. At all.
- Sharks don’t like sleeping. This way they don’t sleep at all.
- Sharks are on this planet for a long time, since they are older than dinosaurs.
- Shark can have up to 15 series teeth in each jaw.
- And in general, they grow up to 50.000 teeth during their lifetime.
- Ocean’s bottom is actually full of shark teeth, that sometimes are turned into jewelry.
- They are able to hear their prey as far as 3.000 feet away. Wow!
- They heat their eyes.
- Foxes are more active during the night.
- The red fox is the most common fox.
- Fox harnesses the earth’s magnetic field to hunt.
- They detect it and sense it as a ring of shadow.
- The smallest fox weighs under 3 pounds.
- In 2011 in Jordan was found a grave, that was 16.500 years old that had a man with his pet fox inside.
- You can buy a domesticated fox for 9000$.
- Arctic foxes don’t shiver until -70 Celsius.
- The bat-eared foxes have 5inch ears.
- They use them in order to detect insects.
- Darwin discovered one new kind of foxes.
- Foxes make 40 different sounds!
- Seagulls are very smart- they learn, remember, and pass on different behaviors.
- When seagulls mate, they mate for a lifetime.
- They can drink both fresh and salty water.
- In Native American symbolism, seagulls symbolize a carefree attitude, versatility, and freedom.
- The world’s biggest bird was a prehistoric seagull with a 24ft wingspan.
- It could fly at 10m per second.
- There is a seagull wine made purely made by stuffing a whole seagull into a bottle with… water.
- Seagulls were used by the U.S. military.
- When seagulls want to keep warm, they stand on one leg.
- In 1973, Niko Tinbergen won the Nobel Prize for investigating why seagulls have a red spot on their yellow bill.
- Hawk can see 8 times clearer than the best human eye!
- They are also very fast: When hunting they are diving 240 km per hour.
- They can catch their prey both in the ground and in the air.
- They survive alone, but during the spring they live with their mates.
- Hawks perform a courtship dance during the mating season.
- Both male and female parents take care of the eggs until they hatch.
- Females are larger than males.
- They can see more colors than humans.
- A war hawk, or just hawk, is a political term for a person who is in favor of a war.
- Hawks can spot their prey from 100 feet away.
- Owls symbolize wisdom in some countries.
- Owls was Harry Potter’s pet.
- They can turn their necks 135 degrees, not 360 degrees as it is commonly known.
- They have good eyesight, as they have tubular eyes.
- They can see in the total dark.
- They can hear their prey under leaves, plants, dirt & snow.
- An owl flight is really silent.
- Owls swallow prey whole.
- They can even eat some other owls.
- The parents owls discriminate their babies, by feeding first of all the strongest ones.
- In ancient Greece, the Little Owl was the companion of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
- In some other cultures, the owl was a sign of death.
- Sheep’s wool just doesn’t stop growing.
- They have almost 360 degrees of vision.
- Sheep are the only animals except for humans that among them you can find homosexuals.
- Sheep can’t right themselves if they’re on their back.
- George Washington, Thomas, and James Madison… raised sheep.
- Woodrow Wilson actually kept a flock inside the White House.
- If you see a sheep in the cast sheep position, they are probably stressed.
- Horses have the biggest eyes among the mammals.
- If you think a horse smiles at you, they don’t. They just determine if a smell is good or bad.
- Horses’ eyes are on their side of their head.
- Back in time people thought were colorblind, but they were not.
- The difference between male and female horses is the number of teeth. Females have 36 teeth, whereas males have 40 teeth.
- Horses can sleep both lying down and standing up.
- A 19th-century horse named “Old Billy” reportedly lived 62 years.
- The only truly wild horse species that still exists is the Przewalski’s horse.
- An adult horse’s brain weighs half of the human’s.
- Horses can’t vomit.
If you want to find out more amazing facts about animals you can also read part 1 and part 2.
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