Most amusing facts about animals

Here are some of the most amusing and interesting facts about animals

• The lion was the most wide spread large land mammal after humans 10,000 years ago.
• The night vision of tigers is 6 times better than that of humans
• Do you know that there are more than 20,000 species of ants in our planet
• Do you know that queen ants live up to 30 years where as ant workers live up to 3 years
• It is a fact that Giraffe sleeps less than 2 hours per day on average
• Almost all gorillas have same blood group type (B type)
• The DNA of gorillas is 95 to 99% same as humans
• A cheetah can reach a speed of 120 Km/h.  It is the fastest land animal
• Some of the dolphin species have upto 250 teeth
• Sharks have up to 3000 teeth
• The largest dinosaurs weighed 90,000 to 1,00,000 Kilograms as per an estimate by Scientists
• The smallest dinosaur was about the size of a chicken
• Flies consume only liquid food as they have no teeth
• A fly has a life span of only few days
• Do you know that the smallest snake in this world is only 4 inches long and the longest snake can be more than 10 meters long.
• The snakes cannot bite or tear their food to pieces,  so they just swallow the prey completely

Few Amazing Facts about Animals

Here are a few amazing facts about various animals.  Read them carefully and enjoy.

• A new born Chinese Water Deer is very very small.  It can be held in the palm of our hand.
• Do you know that Ostriches can run faster than horses and the male Ostriches can roar like lions?
• Gorillas also can catch colds and other illness like human beings.
• The female lion does 90% of the hunting.
• A lion normally does not make more than 20 killings in a year.
• Half of the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China
• Dogs have better eye sight than humans.
• Do you know that a deer does not have a gall bladder?
•  You can find an average of 50,000 spiders in green areas.
• Do you know that the chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die?
• A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
• A gold fish kept in  a dark room becomes pale!!
• Crocodiles can live upto 100 years
• A single teeth of an elephant weighs 9 pounds.
• Do you know that Americans trained bats to drop bombs during Second World War?
• Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
• A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
• Do you know that ants never sleep in their life?  One more thing is that ants do not have lungs.
• A group of owls is called as parliament.
• Do you know that a cow has 4 stomachs!!
• The weight of a blue whale is equivalent to 30 elephants.  
• A grass hopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body
• Do you know that kangaroos at birth are only an inch long..   
• There is a butter fly in Africa which has enough poison to kill 6 cats.
• Do you know that scientists have performed brain surgery on cock roaches.
• Most of the elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
• An elephant can smell water upto 3 miles away.
• If you cut a snail's eye, it will grow a new one.
• A Butter fly has 12,000 eyes!!