Amazing Animal Facts

29 Amazing Animal Facts That Will Surprise You<br /><br />1. One species of jellyfish is immortal. It can revert back to its child state after having become sexually mature, and therefore never dies.<br />2. A snail can sleep for three years at a time.<br />3. There are 1 million ants for every human in the world.<br />4. A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 minutes. Lucky pigs.<br />5. A blue whale weighs as much as three elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.<br />6. A bat can eat up to 1 thousand insects per hour.<br />7. Octopuses have three hearts.<br />8 Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year.<br />9. Wild dolphins call each other by name. “Oi, Flipper!”<br />10. Elephants have a specific alarm call that means “human”.<br />11. Dogs’ sense of smell is about 100, 000 times stronger than humans’. However, they have only one-sixth our number of taste buds.<br />12. Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism such as chipmunks and squirrels see in slow motion.<br />13. The now extinct colossal penguin stood as tall as 2.03 metre basket ball legend LeBron James.<br />14. The male gentoo and Adelie penguins “propose” to females by giving them a pebble.<br />15. Polar bears have black skin and see-through fur.<br />16. Reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels.<br />17. Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times per second.<br />18. A sea lion is the first nonhuman mammal with a proven ability to keep a beat.<br />19. Male koalas have two penises, and female koalas have two vaginas.<br />20. At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.<br />21. The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside-down.<br />22. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat (is horny) and cannot find a mate.<br />23. The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it is enough to kill a person 150 times over.<br />24. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.<br />25. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.<br />26. The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.<br />27. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.<br />28. A housefly hums in the key of F.<br />29. Sea otters hold each other’s paws when they sleep so they don’t drift apart.