Interesting Animal Facts

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute

An adult blue whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute

A horse has 18 more bones than a human

Alligators cannot move backwards

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air

A blue whale is the loudest animal

Black cats are considered lucky in some European countries

The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to 4 years

A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it

An elephant can smell water three miles away

There are more cows than people in the US

Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age

An ant can lift 50 times it's own weight

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound

It is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years

Turtles can breathe through their butts

For every human in the world there is 15 dogs an 45 cats

Starfish don't have brains

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do, about 150 people are killed each year by coconuts

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth

More people each year are killed from bees than from snakes

A cockroach can go nine days without eating

A giraffe's tongue is about 21 inches long

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump

Sharks are immune to cancer

Snails can sleep for 3 years

There are 200,000,000 insects for every 1 person on earth

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why