We have a free choice blog challenge this week so I am going to share some weird facts about animals. ( By the way, there are 101 facts)

A horse fly hums in the key of F

Cows can sleep standing up but can only dream lying down

A flamingo can only eat if it’s head is upside down

Reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter

The male gentoo and Adelie penguins propose by giving the female a pebble

One species of jellyfish is immortal

Ostrich males can roar like a lion

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

In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting

The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death

Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs

The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

Tigers have striped skin as well as their fur

The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees

Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches

The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an elephant

An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away

If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one

We share 70% of our DNA with a slug

We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp

The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating

The word “peacock” doesn’t actually apply to both the male and female birds. It’s only the males that are called peacocks, while the females are called peahens

You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss

A starving mouse will eat its own tail

The starfish is the only animal capable of turning its stomach inside-out

Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs

Alligators cannot move backwards

Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows

Hippo’s sweat is pink

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees

Giraffes have no vocal cords

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again

Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine

Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack

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Even though a polar bear’s average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs

China has the most goats in the world, they have over 170 Million

A chicken with red ear lobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white ear lobes will produce white eggs

Snakes do not blink

A squid’s eye can get as big as a basketball

If you have a fear of chickens, then you actually have Alektorophobia

The life of a housefly is only 14 days

Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people

There is a shark called ‘goblin shark’ which has only been seen around 50 times since its discovery in 1897

Crocodiles eat stones

Horses can’t vomit

A group of frog is called an army

Starfish don’t die of old age

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Frogs cannot swallow without blinking

A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man

Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars

Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They’re 98% water

A rooster is simply a male chicken

Some lions mate over 50 times a day

Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them

Flamingos are not pink

Hummingbirds are the only bird that flies backwards

The worlds deadliest animal is a mosquito

The mayfly’s lifespan is 24 hours

Roosters have to stop themselves from going deaf by tilting their heads back

A cockroach can live for 2 weeks without a head

Chickens can run around headless

Baby elephants suck their trunks

The seahorse is the only animal where the male gets pregnant

The heart of a shrimp is in it’s head

A snail can sleep for 3 years

Slugs have 4 noses

Elephants can’t jump

A rhino’s horn is made of hair

Sloths take 2 weeks to digest

3 percent of antarctic glaciers are penguin urine

Bats always turn left when leaving a cave

Kangaroos can’t fart

An ostriches eye is bigger than it’s brain

50 percent of orangutang have fractured bones from falling out of trees regularly

Frogs can’t vomit, if it has to it vomits it’s entire stomach

Wombat poop is cube

The closest living relatives to the T-rex is chickens

Sloths cannot shiver

Birds cannot swallow in zero gravity

Cows have accents

Crocodiles cannot stick their tongues out

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

Ducks like to surf

The annual number of worldwide shark bites is ten times less than people getting bitten by other people in New York

Some cats are allergic to humans

All clownfish are born male

Cats don’t meow for communication, they do it to get humans attention

There was once a type of crocodile that could gallop

Trained pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso paintings and Monet paintings

Cows painted with stripes can avoid being bitten by flies

Some pigs in china are the size of bears

Pigeons can do math

A group of ferrets is called a business

Turtles can breathe through their butts

Some worms can jump

Sloths sometimes mistake their arms for branches which causes them to fall to their death

Scorpions can hold their breath for six days

Male ring tailed lemurs have stink fights

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