Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Animal Facts!!!

  1. Hippo milk is pink.
  2. A hummimgBird weighs less than a penny.
  3. The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and was measured 22 feet.
  4. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
  5. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot child inside.
  6. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  7. A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
  8. A jellyfish is 95% water.
  9. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
  10. Beavers can swim half a mile under water on one gulp of air.
  11. Porcupines float in water.
  12. The gaint squid has the largest eyes in the world.
  13. Under extreme stress, some octupuses will eat there own arms.
  14. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes do.
  15. The tongue of a crocodiles mouth is unmovable, as it is stuck to the roof of its mouth.
  16. Sharks need to swim, or they will sink.
  17. The tree kangaroo can leap up to 15 metres to another tree.
  18. The Wedge-Tailed Eagle is Australias largest bird of prey.
  19. An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h)
  20. A house fly lives for only 14 days.
  21. 75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
  22. A male baboon can kill a leopard.
  23. Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
  24. There are about 2,900 species of snakes, of these, 375 are venoumous.

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