Here are some interesting facts about animals:
- The octopus has three hearts.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- Starfish don't have brains.
- Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.
- All polar bears are left-handed.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
- Some octopuses have been known to eat their arms off when they are exposed to stressful situations
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
- A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
- A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
- A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person
- A blue whale gains approximately 200 pounds a day for the first seven months of its life
- Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
- Dolphins nap with one eye open
- Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Horses can't vomit
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