So, if you are really interested in the world of animals, keep on reading this article!
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Also, their wings are transparent.
There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
Speaking of butterflies eating, adult butterflies can only feed on liquids.
Butterflies can’t fly, if they are cold.
They normally live a few weeks.
Even though they can’t see far away, they can see colors.
Ladybugs are considered to symbolize the Easter in Greece.
The “Lady” is for the Virgin Mary.
They only live for a year.
Ladybugs can even eat each other (literally).
Elephant families are led by females
Elephants sleep four hours per night.
And they even spend half of their sleep standing up
Elephants get emotional when they experience someone dying by turning silent in order to mourn.
Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump.
Their brain weighs 5kgs!
Female elephants are pregnant for 2 years!
Despite their heavy body they can actually swim.
Elephants get easily sunburned.
A snail can sleep for 3 years!
If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.
A garden snail has about 14,000 teeth while other species can have over 20,000
Slugs have four noses.
Frogs cannot vomit.
If one absolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.
Frogs absorb water through their skin so they don’t need to drink.
Frogs can lay as many as 4,000 eggs in frogspawn.
It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach.
The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.
A shrimp also has its heart in its head. Wise!
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
Scientists still don’t know for sure how many penguin kinds exist.
They can swim at speeds over 10 miles per hour.
Penguins don’t have teeth.
Couples locate each other with distinct calls.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
Giraffes with darker spots are more dominant.
Their legs alone are taller than many humans—about 6 feet.
A giraffe’s neck is too short to reach the ground.
They only drink water once per day.
The giraffe calf can stand up and walk after about an hour.
Within a week, it starts to sample vegetation.
Giraffes only need 5 to 30 minutes of sleep in a day.
Giraffes bellow, snort, hiss and make flute-like sounds, as well as low pitch noises beyond the range of human hearing.
Kangaroos can’t fart!
At birth, baby kangaroos are no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
Kangaroos only live in Australia.
On land kangaroos only ever move their hind legs together.
However in water they kick each leg independently to swim.
Trained pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Ostriches can run faster than horses.
The males can roar like lions.
The common city pigeon (Columba livia), also known as the rock pigeon, might be the first bird humankind ever domesticated.
Charles Darwin owned a flock of pigeons.
Pigeons understand space and time.
Pigeons can find their way back to their nest even if they are miles away.
The birds can do this even if they’ve been transported in isolation—with no visual, olfactory, or magnetic clues.
They saved human lives during WWI and WWII.
In both World Wars, rival nations had huge flocks of pigeon messengers.
In 1964, scientists in Holmdel, New Jersey, heard hissing noises from their antenna that would later prove to be signals from the Big Bang.
They can also distinguish words if they are trained!
The world’s smallest dog was a Yorkshire Terrier.
It weighed just four ounces.
In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.
Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans.
Dogs though can only see black and white.
It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.
Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees on a regular basis.
Deers have no gall bladders.
The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.
To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
Flamingos are pink because of their diet, and more specifically by Beta carotene.
There are 6 different species of flamingo, but you must be an expert to distinguish them.
Flamingos feed by stirring up mud with their feet.
The feathers under their wings (flight feathers) are black.
The male and female of a mating pair build a nest together, and both sit on the egg while it incubates for about a month.
An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
Dalí was seen in Paris walking an anteater on a leash.
The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants.
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body
The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.
One bee has to fly about 90,000 miles – three times around the globe – to make one pound of honey.
Honey bees make 2-3 times more honey than they need.
A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“
Hippos can run faster than humans!
Lonomia obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.
A baby goat is called “kid”.
Giving birth to a baby goat is called kidding. Are you kidding? (Well, no!)
Goats don’t have teeth on their upper jaw.
They also have 4 stomachs!
During Abraham Lincoln’s time in the White House there were two goats, Nanny, and Nanko in it.
Cashmere comes from goats.
There is legend suggesting that goats… discovered the coffee!
