Animal Facts That Tickle! - Aish

ANIMAL FACTS!! Here are some facts about animals and birds that does sound interesting and buzzing!

▪ Wild animals have a much lower heart rate than domestic animals.

▪ If a rhino has two horns, it's from India;  if it has one horn it's from Africa.

▪ Puppies kick your face because they are looking for scraps of food.

▪ Otters sleep holding hands.

▪ Manatees have vocal chords like humans, but they don't speak because they have no ears to hear the sound.

▪ Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

▪ Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and it acts like fiber optics directing sunlight to warm their skin.

▪ Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.

▪ Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

▪ The dinosaurs became extinct before the Rockies or the Alps were formed.

▪ Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of the blue whale.

▪ Due to the natural momentum of the ocean, a saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

▪ A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

▪ Giraffes are unable to cough. Giraffes sleep only about 20 minutes a day.

▪ A giraffe can walk longer than a camel without water.

▪ A giraffe can clean it's ears with its 21 inch long tongue.

▪ A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

▪ Elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

▪ Female ants and female bees only work. There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland.

▪ A spider's blood is transparent.

▪ Frogs jump; toads walk.

▪ Vultures fly without flapping their wings.

▪ The great white shark can have up to 6 rows of teeth.

▪ Despite a hump a camel's spine is straight.

▪ Gold fish turns white if they aren't exposed to the sun.

▪ A bird requires more food proportion to its size than a baby or cat.

▪ Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap in them, but they actually sleep in other places.

▪ Grasshopper hear with their legs. Waving them in the air they can tell where a sound is coming from.

▪ Mosquitos are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

▪ Mosquito repellents block the mosquitos' sensors so they don't know you're there.

▪ Only pigs and dogs can get the actual taste of water.

▪ Dolphins don't automatically breathe, they have to tell themselves to do it.

▪ Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

▪ Dolphins jump out of the water to conserve energy since it is easier to move through air than water.

▪ A donkey's eyes are placed in such a way that he can see all four of his feet at all times.

▪ To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs in to its eyeball.

▪ Some of the fish communicate by making noises by rasping their teeth.

▪ It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

▪ Cows sweat through their noses. The Average cow spends 13 hours a day lying down.

▪ If a lobster loses an eye, it can grow another one. Lobsters always enter their burrows tail first.

▪ Male monkeys lose their hair on their head in the same way as men do. Almost all monkeys are nearsighted.

▪ Dragonflies have a life span of about one day.

▪ Issac Newton invented the cat flop door.

▪ The cats won't walk on aluminium foil.

▪ A cat spends nearly 30 percent of its life grooming itself. Lily flowers are poisonous to cats.

● Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley

● Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away - Philip K. Dick