(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I was looking through the Internet and came accross some funny animal facts. Enjoy:

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be it's country of origin.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Koalas are excellent swimmers.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
Slugs have 4 noses.
A group of crows is called a murder.
Male lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Snakes have one lung.
99% of all animal species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct.
Icthyomaniacs are people who are crazy about fish.
The mantis shrimp has an extending claw that can punch a hole through a glass jar.
Lobsters have pale blue blood.
Eels have two hearts.
Out of 20,000 species of bees, only 4 make honey.
One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles.
In Lebanon it's legal to have animal sex, but only with female animals. Animal sex with males is a capital crime.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
There is a species of bird, Antpitta avis canis Ridgley, that barks like a dog.
The original name for the butterfly was flutterby!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.
A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
It is the female lion who does more than 90 percent of the hunting, while the male is afraid to risk his life, or simply prefers to rest.
When baby sharks are born, they swim away from their mothers right away and are on there own. In fact, their mothers might see them as prey.
Dolphins have bigger brains than the brains of humans
An octopus can change its shape and color to blend in with its surroundings.
An octopus in danger can squirt a stream of ink at its attacker.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
A shrimp's heart is in its head.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
More people are killed by donkeys than in plane crashes annually.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears. However, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.
Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes.
Armadillos are able to contract leprosy.
The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
Turtles can breathe through their butts.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
One pair of rats has the potential for 15,000 descendants in a year.
A female can produce up to twelve litters of twenty rats a year.
Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.
The rat has been called the world’s most destructive mammal - other than man.
Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused.
26% of all electric cable breaks and 18% of all phone cable disruptions are caused by rats.
During warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink. This substance not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin.
A bird "chews" with its stomach.
Some birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasites.
Owls swallow their prey hole because they have no teeth. After 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet.
Eagles mate while airborne.
The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon.
The ant can pull 30 times its own weight.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight.
Humans, bonobo monkeys, and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
Don't give a dog chocolate! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.
The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill.
A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and he cannot move it.
75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The average person eats eight spiders in their sleep in their whole entire lifetime!
Every year, you eat approximately 4 bugs in your sleep.
You are 3 times more likely to be killed by a flying champagne cork than you are to be killed by the bite of a venomous spider.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs, it will let you go instantly.
Starfish haven't got brains.
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
There are as many chickens on this planet as humans.
The animal that lived longest of all was a turtle. It lived to become the respectable age of 188 years.
The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so broad, that a person could swim through it.
It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2000 balloons.
Blue and fin whales can create the loudest sound by animals ever recorded.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex. It's called parthenogenesis.
A tuna called the 'Blue Fin' can be sold for over $20,000 around the world.
Scorpions can be killed by pouring vinegar over them.
Snakes have two sex organs.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
Pigs can't sweat because they don't have sweat glands.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
The hairs on a polar bear are not white, but clear. They reflect light, so they appear white.
Penguins are not found in the North Pole.
Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water.
An Octopus has 3 hearts.
The Nile catfish swim upside down.
A flea can jump 350 times its own body length.
Baby elephants can drink over 80 litres of milk a day.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before dropping dead.
The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war.
An ant can survive for up to two days underwater.
Bulls are not attracted to the colour red.
Bees can see ultraviolet light.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
Goldfish have the memory span of about 3-5 seconds.
If you leave a goldfish in a dark room for years, it will turn white.
Hyenas can comsume prey carrying anthrax without contracting the disease itself.
In rural areas, there are more insects in 1 square mile than there are humans on earth.
Koala bears have finger prints that are almost identical to ours.
Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood.
A mole can dig about 92 metres in 1 night.

Holy crap, a lot of facts but I like the, " An ant can survive for up to two days underwater. "

Because when I was young, Thinking of putting ants in water = DEATH! :b Guess not.

Lol, I think many people thought that too.
But one of my favourite ones is: An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
I found that one rather hilarious myself.