Animal World - Interesting things you don't know

The animal world is colorful and full of interesting things. No one can claim to know quite well about all the species that exist on our planet. The results of countless studies and surveys have provided us with interesting insights about animals.

1. Did you know hippo milk is pink?

Hippo milk is pink.

2. Even a small amount of alcohol poured on a scorpion will drive it crazy and cause it to sting itself to death.

3. The crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

4. The oldest known animal in the world is a 405-year-old clam, discovered in 2007.

5. Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs located in their chests.

6. Octopuses have no blind spots. On average, an octopus’ brain has 300 million neurons. When under extreme stress, some octopuses will even eat their own tentacles.

7. An elephant's brain weighs about 6,000g, while a cat's brain weighs only about 30g.

8. Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.

Kittens sleep a lot to release growth hormone.

9. A cat rubs against a person not only to show affection but also to mark its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail and paws also carry the cat's scent. According to scientists, cats sleep on average about 2/3 of the day. In addition, one reason why kittens sleep so much is because of a growth hormone that is only released during sleep.

10. Sheep can survive up to 2 weeks buried in snow.

11. The world's smartest pig is owned by a math teacher in Madison, Wisconsin (USA). It has the ability to memorize multiplication tables up to 12.

12. Cats have a poor sense of taste. They have only 473 taste buds (tiny dots on their tongues that detect different flavors), compared to 9,000 in humans.

13. Statistics show that each mating session of a rattlesnake lasts up to... more than 22 hours.

14. Studies have found that flies are deaf.

15. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

16. In a state of water shortage, kangaroos can endure longer than camels.

Dogs have five toes on their front paws.

17. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet and five toes on each of their front feet.

18. The average flying speed of honey bees is 24km/hour. They never sleep.

19. Cockroaches can live up to 9 days after their heads are cut off.

20. If you leave a goldfish in the dark for a long time, it will eventually turn white.

21. The flight record for a chicken is 13 seconds.

22. The animal that causes the most deaths to humans worldwide is the mosquito.

23. The abdomen of ants has two stomachs: one stomach holds food for itself and the second stomach is a storage for food shared with other ants. According to scientists, the average life span of an ant is 45 - 60 days.

24. The quacking of a duck does not echo, and no one knows why.

25. Starfish have no brain. They are also among the few animals that can turn their stomachs inside out.

26. Termites are active 24 hours a day and they don't sleep. Studies have also found that termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy rock music.

Baby giraffes typically fall from a height of 1.8 metres when they are born.

27. When a baby giraffe is born, it falls from a height of 1.8 meters and usually comes out unharmed.

28. A tiger not only has striped fur, but its skin is striped too.

29. Vultures fly without flapping their wings.

30. Turkeys can reproduce without mating.

31. Penguins are the only birds that can swim, but cannot fly. There are no penguins found in the Arctic.

32. Iceland, Antarctica and Greenland are the only places where ants do not live.

33. The venom of the king cobra is so toxic that just one gram can kill 150 people.

34. The venom of a small scorpion is much more dangerous than the venom of a large scorpion.

35. The length of an oyster's penis can be up to 20 times its body size!

36. A mouse's heart beats 650 times per minute.

37. A flea can jump 350 times its body length. If humans had that ability, they would be able to jump the length of a football field at once.

38. Koala fingerprints are almost indistinguishable from human fingerprints, which can make them confusing at a crime scene.

A female pigeon cannot lay eggs without seeing another pigeon.

Female pigeons cannot lay eggs without seeing another pigeon.

39. A female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must see another pigeon.

40. The faster a kangaroo jumps, the less energy it consumes.

41. Elephants are among the few mammals that cannot jump! Elephants have also been found to remain standing after death.

50. The tick, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping, and is awake for only two weeks during which time it mates and then dies.

51. Spiders have transparent blood.

52. Some lions mate more than 50 times a day.

53. Snails breathe through their feet.

54. Mice reproduce so quickly that in just 18 months, just two parents can produce up to 1 million offspring.

55. A species of cicada found in Africa spends 17 years of its life sleeping. In total, it is only awake for a few weeks during mating periods and then dies.

56. The hedgehog floats on water.

57. Capybaras are social animals and can get along well with many other animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, turtles and even camels.

58. Alex is the first African grey parrot in the world to ask itself the question of its existence: "What color am I?".

59. A sloth's hand works differently than a human's: To open it, it has to be clenched because it's already clenched, which is why sloths never fall from trees.

60. Seagulls know how to perform a "rain dance" to drive insects and worms off the ground.

61. Aardvarks have a habit of digging deep burrows and they accidentally become shelter for many wild animals when forest fires occur.

62. Mangalitsa is the only pig in the world with thick, warm fur like sheep.

63. The reason flamingos are pink is because they can absorb pigments from the shells of shrimp and prawns they eat every day.