Amazing Facts About Animals

Many of us don’t know the many wonders of animals which is why I created this post to inform you! Enjoy!

Panda’s must eat 25 – 90 pounds (12-38 kg) of bamboo every day to meet their energy needs

A Blue Whales tongue can weigh as much as a car, or a small adult elephant

Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort (like human babies suck their fingers)

The Nile crocodiles jaws can apply 5,000 pounds of pressure per square inch – the strongest bite of any animal in the world

Axolotl are able to regenerate lost limbs and body organs and even parts of its brain

The male seahorse gives birth to babies, up to 2,000 at a time

There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas

Colossal squids eyes are as large as a basketball

White-tailed jackrabbits are the greatest land jumpers, having been recorded leaping an astonishing 21ft (6.4m) vertically

Grey-headed Albatross can circle the globe in only 46 days

A swift fly without landing for 10 months

An ostrich legs are so powerful that their kicks can kill a lion.

The dementor wasp paralyses cockroaches with venom to its head, turning them into a zombie-like state. The toxins leave the cockroach unable to control its own movements, which incredibly makes it run into the wasps nest to meet its demise.

More than half of all pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China and some of their pigs are the size of bears

Giant anteaters consume up to 35,000 ants and termites in a single day

Great white sharks can detect a drop of blood in 25 gallons (100 litres) of water and can even sense tiny amounts of blood from 3 miles (5 km) away

Only 5% of cheetah cubs survive to adulthood

A tigers rear legs are so powerful, that they have been found remaining to stand even after death

Trained pigeons can tell the difference between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

The Peacock Mantis shrimp can throw punches at 50 MPH , accelerating quicker than a .22 bullet

Dragonflies and damselflies form a heart with their tails when they mate

Red-eyed tree frogs can hatch early if they sense danger

Blue jays can mimic hawk’s call to scare away other birds

All clownfish are born male but they can turn female

Male Ring-tailed lemurs will “Stink fight” by wafting scent at each other until one backs off

Ducks like to surf

Bald eagles sound so silly that Hollywood dubs their voices

According to “Time”, the annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York

Female bats give birth to babies upside down, catching the babies with their wings as it drops

Ghost crabs growl using teeth in their stomachs

Female lions do 90 percent of the hunting

Puffins use twigs to scratch their bodies

Cowbirds use secret passwords to teach their young

Humpback whales use bubbles to hunt

Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day

Octopuses can taste with their arms

Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf

Each worm has both male and female organs.

A chameleon’s tongue is at least as long as it’s body but it can grab prey in a fraction of a second

A flea can jump distances 200 times their body length. It’s equal to a human jumping as high as the Empire State Building in New York

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