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20 Random Facts About Animals
Just for your viewing pleasure, 20 random facts about animals. Hope you enjoy.
- A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body.
- The elephant is the only animal that has 4 knees.
- Hog is the generic term for all swine – therefore a pig is a hog but a hog is not neccessarily a pig.
- A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to hold a child standing up.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
- The most widely eaten fish in the world is the herring.
- The cockroach can travel at speeds of a metre a second.
- A frog’s tongue grows from the front of its mouth.
- You are more likely to die from a champagne cork than by a poisonous snake.
- When a giraffe gives birth, its baby drops 6ft to the ground.
- The milk of a hippo is bright pink.
- The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
- Snails can sleep for upto 3 years without needing food.
- Apart from humans, only dolphins have sex for pleasure.
- The moth has no mouth and no stomach.
- Horses can not vomit.
- It is physically impossible for a pig to look up at the sky.
- A polecat is not a cat, it is in fact a weasel.
- Both cows and horses can sleep standing up.
- A chamois goat can balance on the point of a rock the size of a coin.
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Very nice information..I liked point No. 19 , May human beings also sleep standing up
never knew about pink hippo milk.
for the record both cows and horses CAN sleep standing up, but they also can sleep lying down too. (the way its written sounds like they only sleep standing up). I am not sure about cattle, but I know horses can lock their patellas in their hind leg which gives them this ability.
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thank you for the information
Interesting information!
Fascinating facts about animals.