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Weird and Amazing Animal Facts

 

When I have been travelling around your world I have learnt strange and amazing things about animals that are really weird.

I am going to make a list of animal facts that I think are the weirdest or funniest I have heard.

They could be true. Why don't you do some research yourself and see if they are.

	Some Reindeer migrate more than any other mammals - over 3,000 miles in a year.
	A Reindeer's nose warms the air it breathes before it gets to its lungs.
	Some Reindeer have knees that make a clicking sound when they walk. It helps them keep together in a blizzard.
	Some Turtles can breath out of their butts.
	The tongue of a Giraffe is so long it can lick inside its own ear.
	On average a Great White Shark has 300 teeth at any one time.
	Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks: 7
	A Tasmanian Devil's powerful jaw is three times stronger than the jaw of a Pit Bull Terrier. So if you see one don't muck with it
	Snails can't hear you. They don't have ears.
	Snakes can hear you. They have ears on the inside of their head.
	Snakes smell with their tongue.
	Cows kill more people than Sharks. About 10 humans are killed by Sharks every year but nearly 100 people die each year from being stepped on by cows.
	The brain of a cockroach is inside its body. If a roach loses its head it can still live for over a week, eventually dying because it can not eat.
	The Australian Barking Spider preys on small frogs and reptiles.
	Spiders have 8 legs and 48 knees.
	If a Copperhead snake loses a fang it can replace it with a spare. It has up to seven spare fangs.
	The longer a Copperhead snake is the longer its fangs are.
	Frogs sleep with their eyes open.
	It's hard to sneak up on a frog. They can see in all directions at once.
	Fear of frogs is know as Frog Phobia or Ranidaphobia
	A Shark's teeth are normally replaced every eight days.
	Man-eating sharks prefer to eat men. 13 males are bitten for every one female
	A Great White Shark can go without eating for up to three months.
	If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.
	Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air.
	A group of Kangaroos is called a mob.
	A young Kangaroo is called a Joey.
	Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.
	Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water.
	The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz - 0.07 oz ( 2 grams).
	A bear can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h).
	Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
	Polar bears are left handed.
	A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
	A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
	Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
	Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
	The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) means 'barking dog'.
	Snakes can see through their eyelids.
	A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
	Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain.
	The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
	Butterflies tast sensors are in their feet. They taste their food by standing on it.
	Katydids have ears in their front legs.
	The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight.
	Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.
	The flying frog uses flaps of skin between its toes to glide.
	The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute.
	The Chameleon's tongue is as long as its body.
	The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once.
	The Kangaroo's ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.
	Flamingos eat with their heads upside down to strain the water out of their food.
	Many snakes never stop growing. That's one reason they must shed their skin.
	The Artic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in each place.
	The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world. It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans.
	A hippopotamus can stay under water for up to 30 minutes.
	The Basenji is the only dog which does not bark.
	Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping.
	The Sun Bear has the longest tongue of all bear species - 20-25 centimetres (8 to 10 inches) long.
	If the Sun Bear is grabbed or bitten around its head, it can turn round inside the wrinkly skin on its head and bite the predator.

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