Useless , But interesting animal facts ( 51 - 100 )

• More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.
• Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.
• The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.
• You can house break an armadillo.
• Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.
• It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
• Ninety-nine percent of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching. In fact, the odds are 10,000 to 1 against any larval lobster living long enough to end up as a lobster dinner.
• A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater sound from fifteen miles away.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
• Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
• A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
• A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
• A group of whales is called a pod.
• A group of geese is called a gaggle. 
• A group of ravens is called a murder.
• A group of larks is called an exaltation.
• A group of owls is called a parliament.
• Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
• The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
• The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
• Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
• Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
• A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
• An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
• Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
• Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.
• Rabbits love licorice.
• The eye of the giant squid is fifteen inches in diameter -- the size of a basketball. 
• Want to known the appetite of a South American Giant Anteater? Well it eats over 30,000 ants, per day. 
• The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer.
• The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h.
• The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale.
• The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale.
• The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth. 
• Snakes don�t bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
• St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
• Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.
• Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
• The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 10 thousand years.
• The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.
• In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.
• The most venomous of all snakes, known as the Inland Taipan has enough venom in one bite to kill over 200,000 mice.
• Finches love thistle seeds. But only goldfinches can eat upside-down. Goldfinch feeders have openings underneath perches so other birds can't elbow their way into that particular chow line.
• It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
• A crocodile really does produce tears, but they're not due to sadness. The tears are glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes. Hence, "crocodile tears" are false tears.
• Ergonomic waterbeds are the latest must-have on the bovine circuit. The beds, listing at $175, are said to enhance cattle health by reducing joint damage.
• A dog's mucus membrane is the size of fifty postage stamps.
• The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years, 5 months.
• 78% of cats never travel with their owner.