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ANIMAL FACTS: DID YOU KNOW?

• Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
  
  
• A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
  
  
• 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
  
  
• The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
  
  
• The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.
  
  
• A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
  
  
• Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.
  
  
• A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
  
  
• The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.
  
  
• Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
  
  
• The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.
  
  
• Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.
  
  
• The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
  
  
• Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.
  
  
• A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
  
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
  
• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
  
  
• The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
  
  
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  
  
• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
  
  
• In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.
  
  
• A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
  
  
• An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
  
  
• Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
  
  
• Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Oho Zoo in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
  
  
• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
  
  
• Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
  
  
• It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
  
  
• Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.
  
  
• Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
  
  
• On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
  
  
• Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
  
  
• A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
  
  
• Male seahorses produce offspring.
  
  
• Giraffes have no vocal cords.
  
  
• Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
  
  
• An albatross can sleep while flying.
  
  
• A mosquito has 47 teeth.
  
  
• Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
  
  
• The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
  
  
• Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
  
  
• The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs

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