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ANIMAL FACTS! Giraffes have no vocal cords! You'd think that a neck that long would! Their tongue is 14 inches long and is black instead of pink!
Dragonflies can fly up to 30 miles per hour!
A crocodile can not stick out it's tongue!
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. That is like a human jumping the length of a football field!
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy!
Tigers can see in the dark six times better than humans can, and, they see in color!
An Ostrich's eye is two times bigger than its brain...they have huge eyes!
The world's smallest mammal is the Bumblebee Bat. It weighs less than a penny, and lives in Thailand.
Cows clean their noses with their tongues! Yuck!
There are no snakes in Alaska!
The Hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards!
Polar Bears are left handed.
No two cows have the exact same pattern of spots; their spots are like their fingerprints.
Armadillos are easily housebroken.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
A baby rabbit is called a 'kit'.
Llamas like to hum!
Starfish have eight eyes - on the ends of their legs!
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear!
Birds can not live in space because they must have gravity to swallow.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all girls or all boys.
Reindeer like to eat bananas!
Dogs have 42 teeth, and cats have 30.
Cats can be left or right pawed, but do show preference to one or the other.
A cat has four rows of whiskers and uses them to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A cat can jump as much as seven times it's height!
Have you ever given your kitty a treat and he or she ignored it? That is because cats can not see directly under their nose, so they can't always see the snack you might have given them!
A cat has 230 bones in its body; a human has only 206.
Dogs can see colors but not as vividly as humans. They see blue, yellow and gray the best, and probably don't see green colors very well.
Dogs can remember a scent for a lifetime.
Dogs yawn as a sign of contentment.
Dogs sweat only from the bottoms of their feet, whereas cats can't sweat at all, as they have no sweat glands.
Walt Disney's family dog was a Poodle named Lady.
The Beatle's song, 'Martha, My Dear' was written by Paul McCartney about his Shetland Sheepdog named....Martha!
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is 'Bingo'.
A kitty with it's tail held high means 'happy'! A twitching tail is a warning sign that the cat may not want to be bothered!
A cat's heart beats twice as fast as a humans.
A cats (or tiger's) tongue is scratchy because it is lined with 'papillae', which are tiny hooks that help it hold its food in place.
Dog's can hear sounds that people can not hear.
Black dogs are the last ones to get adopted, so if you are looking for a new dog pal, consider adopting a black one!
The biggest dog to ever live in the White House was President James Buchanan's dog Lara. Lara was a Newfoundland. The smallest to ever live there was a tiny terrier named Punch, who was owned by President Buchanan's niece, Harriet.
If you go to the Roosevelt memorial in Washington, D.C., you will see President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, memorialized there too. Fala was a Scottish Terrier.
No new animals have been domesticated (tamed to live with people) in the last 4,000 years.
The Goldfish is the only animal to see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
A baby eel is called an 'elver' and a baby oyster is called a 'spat'.
Animals who eat other animals (carnivorous) will not eat an animal who was killed by a lightening strike.
A group of cats is called a 'clowder'.
A group of unicorns is called a 'blessing'.
A group of twelve or more cows is called a 'flink'.
A group of frogs is called an 'army'.
A group of rhinos is called a 'clash'.
A group of geese is called a 'gaggle'.
A group of owls is called a 'parliament'.
A group of gnats is called a 'cloud'.
A group of chickens is called a 'peep'.
A baby rabbit is called a 'kit'.
A baby cat is called a 'kitten'.
Mel Blanc, who used to do the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots!
The heaviest cat recorded weighed 46 pounds.
A cow chews its 'cud' an average of 42,000 times a day. Wonder who gets to sit there and count??
Pigs love to eat Ben and Jerry's ice cream, but there is one flavor they will not eat: Mint Oreo
