Interesting Facts About Animals

You may wonder about something so weird about the lifestyles of animals that sometimes pop-up in your mind. Some interesting facts may be quite funny but they are really onto something that is knowledgeable and these are all come in very reliable sources.

Here are some interesting facts about animals that you may find it hard to believe but they are all true.

• When you see your cat pleased or happy, they press their eyes shut.
• Know what is the only animal that has four knees? Well it is an elephant.
• An African cicada spends 17 years of their life sleeping, wakes up for only two weeks, then they will mates and die.
• Not all heart is in the chest. Why? Because the heart of a shrimp is found in their head.
• Not all black animals are really black, because black lemurs have blue eyes.
• Another fascinating about cat is that they can hear an ultrasound.
• Jaguars are not that brave because they are frightened by dogs.
• A gold fish has a memory of three months.
• If you keep goldfish in a dark area, it will eventually turns white.
• Another thing about goldfish is that they can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month and they can also be trained to push levers for food.
• There is one little creature that does not sleep. An ant.
• Spotted dogs? They were no spot at all when a Dalmatian is born.
• Roosters extend their neck so that they can crow, or else they weren’t.
• Armadillos have four babies at a time and they were all similar sex. 
• Aside from humans, bonobo monkeys or pygmy chimpanzee are the only species who do face to face sex.
• A snail can glide over a razor blade without being hurt by generating slime that helps the snail glide safely.
• Humans are not only one who categorized with right or left handed because dogs and cats also do.
• Not all transparent and fluffy fur polar bears have white skin because they actually have black skin.
• Who can create a loudest sound among animals? Well, only blue whale can do that at 188 decibels and it can be detected more than 800 kilometers away.
• Only chameleon can see two opposite directions at the same time because they can move their eyes independently.
• All mammals can jump including dolphins but there is a certain animal that cannot do it. An elephant.
• Eating with your mouth? Yes, but frogs also used their eyes to eat their food. How? Frog can pull their eyes inward towards their mouth to help push the food down to their throat.
• Some species of frogs can be frozen solid then defrosted, and they will still continue living.
• Another amazing thing about snails is that they can sleep for three years.
• Vocalization? Dogs can have ten vocal sounds while cats can have 100.
• What is use for smelling? Nose. Yes but not for butterflies because they use their feet to smell.
• An egg laden goldfish is called a twit.
• Horse cannot do vomiting.
• Pigs cannot look up in the sky.
• The oldest dog died at the age of 29 years old.
• Who says cats are not famous? Well they were popular in the United States.
• Another animal that does not sleep is the honeybee.
• All have only one heart except earthworms because they have five hearts.
• Koalas’ fingerprints are all the same with humans in terms of size, shape and pattern.
• The milk of camels has ten times more iron than the milk of a cow.
• The total combined weight of the world’s ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
• The snakes can see through its transparent eyelids when they are closed.
• Honeybee has hair on their eyes.
• Turkey is the dumbest of all domesticated animals.
• Kermit the Frog is left-handed.
• The pet ferret was domesticated over 500 years before the house cat.
• Whales die if their echo system fails.
• Weevils are more resistant to poisons in the morning than at night.

Here they go. Hope you enjoy reading and learned some interesting facts.