Animal facts

• The average housefly lives for one month.
• The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot. ( Don't forget Moms )
• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

• A couple of animal breeders from Russia had claimed sometime ago that they bred sheep with natural blue wool
• The eyesight of dogs are better than that of human beings.
• On an average a hen lays 19 dozen eggs in a year.
• The small intestine of an ostrich measures upto 46-feet in length.
• Your pet cat can scare a black bear. The big fellow will run up a tree to save itself from the little domestic creature. Meow, meow!
• Sleeping beauties! Gorillas sleep upto fourteen hours, a day.
• While the male lion rests in its den, it is the females that have go out and get the food.
• An elephant simply cannot jump to even save its life.
• No right turn! The bats do not need any boards, for its always the left turn for them when exiting a cave.
• Sharks are the only known species to never suffer from cancer.
• Heavyweights! The tongue of a blue whale could weigh more than a full-grown adult elephant.
• Oysters change from male to female gender several times during their lifespan.
• Every shrimp is actually born a male and then become females as they mature.
• An elephant can smell water from a distance of three miles.
• A storage bin! The duckbill platypus is known to store upto six hundred worms in its cheek pouches.
• Music lovers! Make a cow listen to music and there will be more milk in the bucke.
• Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard upto a mile away.
• Humans daydream with their eyes open, and dolphins actually sleep with their eyes wide open.
• Bulls are known to be colorblind. It's a black-and-white life for them!
•  A mosquito has 47 teeth.
• The memory span of goldfish is just about 3 seconds.
• A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation!
• A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.
• On land - the cheetah (over very short distances) can go about 102.88 km/hr (64.3 mph). In the air - A Peregrine falcon can dive (stoop) at 398 km/hr (242 mph) In water - A Sailfish can go at rates of 110 km/hr (68 mph) For comparison - The fastest insect is tee Dragonfly clocked at 100 km/hr (60 mph) the worlds' fastest land animal is the cheetah, and the fastest sky animals are the falcon, the eagle, and the hawk, the fastest sea animal is the shark.

Taken over the internet.