Just because it's Summer break, that doesn't mean you can't learn a thing or two! Impress your friends with some fun animal factoids.
- Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
- A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
- Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions!
- Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China
- On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
- There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
- Snakes are carnivores, which mean they only ear animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs, and other small mammals.
- In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone's ear while they're moose hunting.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
- Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) mammals to have truly blue eyes.
- A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- if you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
- If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale.
- Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
- The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The average fox weighs 12 pounds.
- Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
Did you enjoy learning more about animals? Leave us a comment for any that you might know!