Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Animals..

1. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeball – It will let you go instantly.

2. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

3. Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory.

4. Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.

5. Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away.

6. Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow.
 
7. Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions.

8. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

9. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.

10. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

11. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

12. Starfish have no brains.


13. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

14. A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
 
15. Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

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