Animal Facts

Here are 90 Mind-Blowing Animal Facts:

1. The Giant Tortoise can weigh as much as a brown bear – 550 pounds!
2. A lion's roar can be heard as far as three miles away.
3. Wild Bactrian camels can drink 88 pints of water at once.
4. The Regal Horned Lizard squirts blood out of its eyes when threatened.
5. An ostrich's eyes are bigger than its brain.
6. Koalas sleep for 18 to 22 hours a day.
7. Sea turtles can live for up to 100 years.
8. A grizzly bear's bite can crush a bowling ball.
9. Wombat poop is shaped like cubes.
10. Panda bears are born pink and get their color at one month old.
11. Newborn giraffes weigh 220 pounds.
12. Bald eagles can dive at 100 mph to pluck fish.
13. Flamingoes get their pink color from the shrimp they eat.
14. Otters hold hands while sleeping so none get lost.
15. The mosquito is the deadliest animal due to diseases.
16. The largest squid ever measured was over 50 feet long.
17. An octopus mother lays eggs, then dies after they hatch.
18. A garden snail can have up to 14,000 teeth.
19. A blue whale's tongue can weigh 6,000-8,000 pounds.
20. There is enough toxin in a pufferfish to kill 30 adults.
21. Humans can smell skunk spray up to 3.5 miles away.
22. Japanese spider crabs have leg spans up to 13 feet.
23. A shoebill stork can swallow a baby alligator whole.
24. The shock from an electric eel can knock out a horse.
25. Adult cats don't meow at other cats. Only at humans.
26. Rats laugh when they're tickled.
27. Kangaroos cannot walk backward.
28. Hippopotamus milk is pink.
29. Butterflies taste with their feet.
30. Emperor penguins can swim underwater for up to 27 minutes.
31. A chameleon's tongue is as long as its body.
32. Some hummingbirds weigh less than two ounces.
33. Gorillas burp when they are happy.
34. Bats have thumbs.
35. Walruses can sleep while underwater.
36. Rhino horns are made from keratin, like fingernails.
37. Snakes can see with their eyes closed.
38. A ladybug eats about 5,000 aphids in its lifetime.
39. Only female mosquitos bite.
40. Newborn seahorses are about the size of an M&M.
41. Cockroaches can live a week without their heads.
42. Slugs have four noses.
43. Cows can walk up stairs but cannot walk down.
44. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
45. Snails can sleep for up to three years.
46. Sea lions are the only animals that can clap to a beat.
47. Anteaters have no teeth.
48. A butterfly can have up to 12,000 eyes.
49. It takes two weeks for a sloth to digest food.
50. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
51. A shrimp's heart is in his head.
52. Woodpeckers can peck up to 20 times per second.
53. Koala fingerprints are so similar to human they could interfere with crime scenes.
54. Ghost crabs have teeth in their stomachs.
55. Mantis shrimp can punch so fast they sometimes break aquarium glass.
56. Frogs can freeze without dying.
57. Reindeer eyes change from gold to blue in winter.
58. Elephants are pregnant for 22 months.
59. Snow leopards don't roar but purr.
60. No two tigers have the same stripe pattern.
61. Squirrels help plant thousands of trees each year.
62. A dog's nose print is unique.
63. Honeybees flap their wings 200 times per second.
64. Wild dolphins give each other names.
65. Roosters crow so loud they'd deafen themselves if they didn't tip their heads back.
66. For every human, there are one million ants.
67. A flamingo can only eat with its head upside down.
68. Platypuses have venomous spurs on their back feet.
69. A narwhal's horn is a tooth that grows outside their body.
70. Bearded dragons wave when they recognize something.
71. Bats give birth upside down and catch their newborns in their wings.
72. An octopus has nine brains.
73. Vultures keep cool by pooping on their own feet.
74. Leeches have three jaws, each with 100 teeth.
75. Baby elephants suck on their trunks like human babies on pacifiers.
76. Monkeys can go bald in old age.
77. Garfish have green bones.
78. An elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
79. Newborn kangaroos are the size of a bee.
80. African grey parrots help each other find food.
81. Some worms can jump and detach their tails.
82. Crows can play pranks on each other.
83. Some frogs make homes in elephant poop.
84. Alligators like to ride on the backs of manatees.