amazing facts about animals
Amazing Facts About Animals
The animal kingdom has a lot more in store for us than what actually meets our eye. Don't believe us? Check this compilation of amazing facts about animals, which are too good to be true.
- A cheetah can clock a speed of 70 mph with immense ease. That's quite fast, considering that the fastest human can only run at a speed of about 18 mph at the max.
- A botfly is known to fly at a speed of 818 mph, which makes it faster than an aircraft.
- Kangaroo rats have the capability of going on for lifetime without drinking water.
- Giraffes can use their elongated tongue to clean their ears.
- Both, giraffes and humans have seven bones in their neck.
- Insects have colorless blood. The red blood that we come across when we kill an insect, is the blood of the animal on whom the particular insect was feeding.
- Gastric frogs, native to Australia, are known to give birth to their young ones through their mouth.
- The first animal to make it to the space was a dog named Laika.
- The brain of a cockroach is located within its body, and hence, even if it were to lose its head, the roach would survive for a period of 9 days before finally dying of hunger.
- Contrary to the popular belief, flying squirrels don't really fly; they actually glide.
- African elephants produce around 100 kg manure every day; most of which is eaten up by beetles.
- A wolf's howl doesn't produce an echo, even if it howls in a valley surrounded by mountains.
- With an approximate weight of around 4 oz, a panda is smaller than a mouse at birth.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, measuring 39 cm in width. That's 16 times the size of human eyes.
- A woodpecker pecks the wood at the rate of 20 pecks per second.
- A grizzly bear is known to run as fast as an adult horse.
- An electric eel is known to produce electricity sufficient enough to light up 10 electric bulbs.
- The tongue of a chameleon species is double the length of its body.
- An earthworm has the capacity to pull weight that is 10 times the weight of its own body.
- The slowest fish in the world is the seahorse, with a speed of 0.016 km/h.
- Fleas are known to cover a distance of 30 cm in a single leap, i.e., 20 times the length of their own body.
- At 188 decibels, the whistling of the blue whale is the loudest sound made by any animal on the planet.
- Capybara is the largest rodent in the world. However, the anaconda, which is the largest snake in the world, devours it with ease.
- In its journey from the Arctic to Antarctica and back, the Arctic tern covers a distance of 32,000 km, which makes it the farthest traveling migratory bird in the world.