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.

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.