Animals Trivia | 100 random facts and trivia about animals (part 1)

Animals: some are cute, some are wild, some are stunning. All of them though are important for environmental balance.

Since animals are so important for the environment, let’s find out more about them!

1. Lions run at a speed of up to 81kmph.
2. All baby lions are born with blue eyes.
3. Female lions do 90% of the hunting.
4. The males protect their pride.
5. The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg (826 lb)
6. Zebras’ stripes help them to recognize each other or they are used as camouflage or as… sunscreen.
7. Zebras can actually kill a lion, despite the fact that the lion is considered the “king of the jungle”.
8. Zebras can kill each other by… kicking!
9. Also, despite the fact zebras kill other animals they are herbivores!
10. In most of the States of the U.S.A, it Is actually legal to own a zebra in your house. Because why not?
11. Hippopotamus’ reproduction and birth occur in the water.
12. A hippopotamus can hold its breath underwater for about 5 minutes.
13. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
14. Some gorillas in captivity have learned to use sign language to communicate with humans.
15. Camels mate by having both male and female sitting on the ground.
16. Camels drink 40 gallons of water per day.
17. There is a song named “The Camel Song”. It’s not about camels.
18. Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
19. Despite the common belief, pigs are NOT dirty.
20. Pigs only roll on the mud to cool off and they normally keep their “space” clean and organized.
21. Also, pigs are very smart and they are even considered smarter than kids before the age of 3!
22. Alexander the Great reportedly used pigs as a counter-attack to elephants.
23. There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
24. A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
25. For every human in the world, there are one million ants.
26. Ants never sleep.
27. Ants don’t have lungs.
28. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
29. Causing a horse, donkey or pony to lose its balance and fall over is illegal in Phoenix, Arizona.
30. In 2008, a snake in Australia that swallowed four golf balls thinking they were chicken eggs was saved by emergency surgery.
31. Around 10 million times as many sharks are killed by humans as humans killed by sharks.
32. Cows have best friends.
33. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400-liter bottles.
34. Cows are considered sacred in India.
35. On average, cows poop 16 times per day!
36. Millions of trees grow every year thanks to squirrels forgetting where they put their nuts.
37. Squirrels can’t burp or vomit.
38. Female insects of the genus Neotrogla have a penis and can have sex for up to 70 hours.
39. There’s a mammal in Australia that has sex until it disintegrates.
40. During sex, flies create a buzz that can attract predatory bats.
41. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
42. Female Komodo dragons don’t need a male to reproduce.
43. Bald eagles court each other in the sky. They lock talons while freefalling, then soar upward before hitting the ground.
44. Female black widow spiders sometimes kill and eat their male counterparts after mating.
45. Less time separates the existence of humans and the tyrannosaurus rex than the T-rex and the stegosaurus.
46. There’s a place on Earth where seagulls prey on right whales.
47. Owls don’t have eyeballs. They have eye tubes.
48. Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion.
49. Dogs’ sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans’, but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.
50. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale!
51. The oldest goldfish (on record) made it into his mid 40’s.
52. ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.
53. For every year of a goldie’s life, the fish develops a ring on its scales!
54. Goldfishes can see more colors than humans.
55. The 3-second memory thing is a total myth.
56. Goldfishes have a sixth sense!
57. A goldfish will eat whatever fish fits in their mouth, even their own baby goldfish or… poop.
58. Goldfish can’t close their eyes.
59. They sleep without closing their eyes.
60. Cats cannot detect sweetness.
61. The oldest evidence of domesticated cats dates back 9,500 years.
62. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals.
63. They can see in near darkness.
64. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program.
65. A cat has the power to sometimes heal themselves by purring.
66. A domestic cat’s purr has a frequency of between 25 and 150 Hertz.
67. It happens to be the frequency at which muscles and bones best grow and repair themselves. 
68. Cats only use their meows to talk to humans, not each other.
69. The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
70. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
71. Alligators generally live between 30 & 50 years.
72. Turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
73. A housefly hums in the key of F.
74. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
75. An elephant’s tooth can weigh up to 90pounds.
76. Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
77. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
78. Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.
79. A group of owls is called a parliament.
80. Male puppies are quite gentlemen. When playing with female puppies, male puppies will often let them win, even if they have a physical advantage.
81. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
82. Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.
83. The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.
84. Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.
85. Norway knighted a penguin.
86. If you kill a panda in China, you can be punished even with death penalty.
87. No two tigers ever have the same stripes.
88. Actually this is how individual tigers can be identified.
89. The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.
90. A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
91. Koala fingerprints are so close to humans’ that they could taint crime scenes.
92. Parrots will selflessly help each other out.
93. The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
94. most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
95. The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.
96. The most poisonous fish in the world is the stonefish.
97. Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
98. Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
99. Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.
100. Bottlenose dolphins are even more right-handed than humans.