Useless , But interesting animal facts ( 1 - 50 )

• There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 
• Hippo milk is pink
• The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year. 
• The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. 
• There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world.
• Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
• The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
• Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. 
•  The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract it's claws. 
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. 
•  It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
• Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down.
•  On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
• The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.
• The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
• North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.
• Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.
• A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand. 
• Every year more people are killed in Africa by crocodiles than by lions.
• An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h. 
• Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you. 
• There are crabs that are the size of a pea. There are known as �Pea Crabs�. 
• The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months. 
• Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people. 
• You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffe ears. It can do so with its own 50cm-tongue.  
• The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
• The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods.
• A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
• Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces.
• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
• The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times. 
• Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads.
• Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers.
• Giraffes can't cough.
• Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.
• The Japanese quail has many values to the people who live in the areas it habitates. They are used for their song, their eggs, their uses as fighting cocks, for their meat, and are carried around in cold weather in South china to keep one's hands warm.
• All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.
• The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
• The March Hare from Alice In Wonderland portrays the actual antics of real hares during springtime, when they jump around and hit their large hind feet on the ground.
• Some species of dinosaur were the size of chickens.
• Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non-gravity environment.
• The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.
• Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.
• Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.
• Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.
• The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.
• Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.
•  The giant Pacific octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.