Weird Animal Facts

Did you know?…A shrimp's heart is in its head.

Did you know?…Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Did you know?…The heaviest domestic cat is a tabby called 'Himmy' who weighed 21.3kg (46lb 15oz) at his death in 1984. 

Did you know?…Goats and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils. Eeeewwwwww

Did you know?…It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Did you know?…Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground its rib cage absorbs most of the impact

Did you know?…A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

Did you know?…In the state of Minnesota, citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head

Did you know?…The female preying mantis devours her partner while they're mating or she might rip his head off before because he cannot 'perform' with his head is attached to his body. Girl Power!

Did you know?…Polar bear livers are poisonous because they contain too much vitamin C

Did you know?…A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death

Did you know?…Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.

Did you know?…A study conducted in Germany appears to show listening to loud rock music causes homosexuality in rats. Why hell did they conduct a study into that?

Did you know?…The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !

Did you know?…Contray to the phrase "sweating like a pig", pigs cant actually sweat

Did you know?…A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why

Did you know?…In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.

Did you know?…To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.

Did you know?…All porcupines float in water.

Did you know?…Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

Did you know?…Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex. Kinky!

Did you know?… An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Did you know?…A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Did you know?…The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Did you know?…The groundhog is only accurate in predicting the weather 28% of the time.

Did you know?…The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Did you know?…Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

Did you know?…Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

Did you know?…All polar bears are left-handed.

Did you know?…A snail can sleep for three years.

Did you know?…Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Did you know?…Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Did you know?…It's possible to lead a cow upstairs … but not downstairs.

Did you know?…More people fear spiders more than they do death.

Did you know?…Butterflies taste with their feet.

Did you know?…The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

Did you know?…The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Did you know?…Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Did you know?…The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

Did you know?…Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

Did you know?…Starfish have no brains.

Did you know?…Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Did you know?…A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

Did you know?…Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

Did you know?…A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Did you know?…If someone places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.