Amazing Facts About Animals

July 13, 2010 admin Facts, 10

* The largest land animal in the world is the Kodiak bear. It weighs about 862 kilograms, which is roughly the same as 14 male gymnasts.

* Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.

* Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump.

* The average garden-variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

* A swan is the only bird with a penis.

* African elephants produce approximately 100 kilograms of manure per day. Most of this manure is eaten up by beetles.

* The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g).

* Approximately 50 percent of all orangutans have fractured bones, a result of falling off of trees on a regular basis.

* Woodpeckers slam their heads into wood at a rate of 20 pecks per second. What protects them from injury is a spongy area that sits behind their beaks and acts as a shock absorber.

* Crocodiles are blind in the water but very keen of sight in the air.

* A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

* The brain of a roach is located inside of its body. If a roach loses its head, it can live up to nine days. A decapitated roach dies not because it cannot think, but because it cannot eat.

* The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight.

* African elephants produce approximately 100 kilograms of manure per day. Most of this manure is eaten up by beetles.

* Unlike all other insects, flies have five eyes. They have two large eyes and three smaller eyes between them.

* Frogs cannot vomit. Whenever a frog absolutely has to vomit, it vomits its entire stomach.

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