Cool Animal Facts - Part 1
As strange and wierd as our fellow humans may seem, sometimes those in the animal kingdom are even more bizarre then we are. Want proof? Check out the crazy animals below.
Did you know that cows have friends?
Did you know that cows, like humans, moo (speak) in accents specific to their region.?
Believe it or not, a butterfly can taste with it's feet.
Sea Otters hold each other's paws while sleeping. They do this so that they don't drift apart from each other.
Squirrels aren't as dumb as you think. They can remember the hiding places of over 9,000 nuts.
What about those nuts they forget? They result in millions of trees popping up each year.
If a shark were to be put into a large swimming pool, it would be able to smell a single drop of blood in the water.
Dogs have an incerible sense of smell, they are capable of differentiating odors in concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can.
All polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 10,000 years ago.
A new owl species is discovered approximately every ten years.
Did you know that elephants have no natural predators. However, lions will sometimes prey on young or weak elephants in the wild. The main risk to elephants is from humans through poaching and changes to their habitat.
Cats are as different from each other as we are; a cat’s nose is ridged with a unique pattern, just like a human fingerprint.
A tigers can easily jump over 16 feet in length.
The Gentoo Penguin proposes to their life mate with a pebble.
Most sharks remain on the move for their entire lives. This forces water over their gills which, in turn, delivers oxygen to their blood stream. If one of these sharks would stop moving, it would suffocate and die.
There are only about 700 mountain gorillas and they live high in the mountains in two protected parks in Africa. Lowland gorillas live in central Africa.