Facts On Animals

• Cats are one of the most popular pets in the world.

• There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world.

• Cats and humans have been associated for nearly 10,000 years.

• Less time separates the existence of humans and the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the t-rex and the stegosaurus. 

• Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion.

• There's a place on earth where seagulls prey on right whales. 

• Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 10 milian Sharks for a year. 

• A group of parrots is known as the pandemonium. 

• Polar bears have black skin. 

• Cats and horses are highly susceptible to black widow venom but dogs are relatively resistant. Sheep and rabbits are apparently immune.

• The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg. 

• Lions can rich speech of up to 81 kmph but only in short bursts because of a lack of stamina.

• The roar of a lion can be heard from 8 km away.

• A type of ''immortal'' jellyfish is capable of cheating death indefinitely.

• A single strand of spider silk is thinner than human hair, but also 5 times stronger than steel of the same width. A rope of just 2 inches thick could reportedly stop of Boeing 747. 

• African buffalo Herds display voting behaviour in which individuals register their travel preference by standing up, looking in one direction and then lying back down. Only adult females can vote.

• 14 new species of dancing frog have been discovered in 2014, raising the Global number of known dancing frog species to 24. 

• A sea lion is the first non-human mammal with the proven ability to keep a beat.

• Sea Otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart. Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns. An adult Gorilla is about 1 metre tall to their shoulders when walking on all fours using their arms and their legs

• A Gorilla can live for 40-50

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years.

• Honeybees can flap their Wings 200 times every second. 

• The claws of a Mantis shrimp can accelerate as quickly as a .22 calibre bullet.

• The recently discovered bone-house wasp stuffs the wall of its nest with dead ants. 

• Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.

• Norway knighted a penguin. 

• In China, killing a panda is punishable by death.

• Rats laugh when tickled.

• A supercolony of invasive Argentine ants, known as the ''California large'', covers 560 miles of the US West Coast. It's currently in a turf war with a nearby supercolony in Mexico. 

• By eating pest insects, bats save the US agriculture industry an estimated $3 billion per year. 

• Sweden has a rabbit show jumping competition called Kaninhoppning.

• Pig's orgasms last for 30 minutes. 

SOME SPECIAL FACTS

1. Octopuses have three hearts. 

2. Squirrels can't burp or vomit. 

3. Butterflies can taste with their feet. 

4. Wild dolphins can call each other by name. 

5. Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes. 

6. Young goats pick up ascents from each other.

7. Humpback whales songs spread like'' cultural ripples from one population to another''. 

8. Horses use facial expressions to communicate with each other. 

9. Elephants have a specific alarm call that means ''human'. 

10. Dogs' sense of smell is about 100000 times stronger than humans but they have just one-sixth number of taste buds.

11. The extinct colossus Penguin stood as tall as LeBron James. Mel Gentoo and Adelie penguins ''propose'' to females by giving them a pebble.

12. Azara's owl monkeys are more monogamous than humans. 

13. Barn owls are normally monogamous but, about 25% of mated pairs ''divorce''.

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