Magic in the eyes

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 #1 Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

#2 A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.

#3 Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

#4 A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.

#5 The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

#6 The world’s smallest dog was a Yorkshire Terrier, which weighed just four ounces.

#7 Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.

#8 Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.

#9 On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

#10 Deer have no gall bladders.

#11 There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

#12 Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.

#13 In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.

#14 The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

#15 The leg bones of a bat are so thin that out of the 1,200 species of bats, only 2 can walk on ground. These are the Vampire bat and the Burrowing bat.

#16 Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.

#17 The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.

#18 Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to have truly blue eyes.

#19 A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.

#20 For every human in the world there are one million ants.

#21 If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.

#22 If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale!

#23 Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

#24 The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.

#25 The average fox weighs 14 pounds.

#26 The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.

#27 Alligators generally live between 30 & 50 years.

#28 A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

#29 The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.

#30 A housefly hums in the key of F.

#31 During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.

#32 Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.

#33 To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.

#34 It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.

#35 Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!

#36 Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”

#37 The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

#38 Animals generate 30 times more waste than humans which is 1.4 billion tons every year.

#39 Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.

#40 A group of owls is called a parliament.

#41 Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.

#42 Pear and apple seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.

#43 Cows have one large stomach that is divided into four compartments to go through the different stages of digestion.

#44 An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.

#45 The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

#46 A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.

#47 A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

#48 At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.

#49 The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.

#50 There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!

#51 Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

#52 A black panther is really a black leopard.

#53 The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.

#54 The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.

#55 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

#56 A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running.

#57 Tigers have striped skin as well as their fur.

#58 Hippos can run faster than humans!

#59 The Latin name for moose is alces alces.

#60 The earliest European images of dogs are found in cave paintings dating back 12,000 years ago in Spain.

#61 Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.

#62 The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.

#63 A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.

#64 The great horned owl has no sense of smell.

#65 Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

#66 The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.

#67 Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

#68 The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit an elephant.

#69 A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

#70 A moth has no stomach.

#71 George Washington’s teeth were made of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.

#72 Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.

#73 Goats and sheep are seasonal breeders.

#74 An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

#75 Deer can’t eat hay.

#76 A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.

#77 In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.

#78 Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.

#79 If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a new one.

#80 The ostrich has two toes on each foot which gives it greater speed.

#81 Lonomia obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.

#82 ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.

#83 The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.

#84 On average, cows poop 16 times per day!

#85 The phrase “raining cats and dogs” originated in seventeenth-century England. During heavy rainstorms, many homeless animals would drown and float down the streets, giving the appearance that it had actually rained cats and dogs.

#86 The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.

#87 Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.

#88 Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.

#89 Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.

#90 The fear of animals is called zoophobia.

#91 We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.

#92 We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.

#93 Fireflies do not bite or have pincers. Fireflies are harmless, they don’t even carry diseases.

#94 Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked onions, or anything with caffeine is harmful to dogs.

#95 No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.

#96 The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.

#97 The longest recorded life span of a slug was 1 year, 6 months.

#98 A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.

#99 Elephants are covered with hair.

#100 A ‘haw’ is the third eyelid of a cat, which can only be seen when the cat isn’t well.

#101 A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a six-month period.

#102 The placement of the eyes of a donkey enables them to see all four of their legs at all times.

#103 At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

#104 Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again depending on which is best for mating.

#105 The average length of a Giant Anteater is around 6 and a half foot (2 meters), although about half of this is their long bushy tail.

#106 Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.

#107 Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time. The other awake half makes the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.

#108 Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.

#109 It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.

#110 The word “peacock” doesn’t actually apply to both the male and female birds. It’s only the males that are called peacocks, while the females are called peahens.

#111 A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.

#112 When young abalones feed on red seaweed their shells turn red.

#113 Small quantities of grapes and raisins can cause renal failure in dogs.

#114 The hippopotamus is born underwater.

#115 Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.

#116 A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.

#117 One million stray dogs and 500,000 stray cats live in New York City metropolitan area.

#118 You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.

#119 An elephant’s trunk has around 15,000 muscles. 200 liters of water is drunk from it per day.

#120 The most popular female dog name is Maggie. The most popular male dog name is Max.

#121 A large group of goats is called a herd.

#122 Squirrels cannot see the color red.

#123 The average chicken lays about 260 eggs per year.

#124 A starving mouse will eat its own tail.

#125 Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.

#126 Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.

#127 Birds can recognize landmarks, which they use to help them navigate.

#128 The starfish is the only animal capable of turning its stomach inside-out.

#129 Male dogs will raise their legs while urinating to aim higher on a tree or lamppost because they want to leave a message that they are tall and intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa try to run up tree trunks while they are urinating to appear to be very large.

#130 Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.

#131 About two-thirds of shark attacks on humans have taken place in water less than six feet deep.

#132 Sharks are immune to cancer!

#133 Worldwide, more people eat and drink milk from goats than any other animal.

#134 Alligators cannot move backwards.

#135 The most popular dog breed in Canada, America, and Great Britain is the Labrador Retriever.

#136 The largest giant squid ever found weighed 8,000 pounds.

#137 Approximately 100 people die each year when they are stepped on by cows.

#138 A group of butterflies is known as a flutter.

#139 The sperm whale is the loudest animal. Their clicks have been measured at 230 dB.

#140 Hippo’s sweat is pink.

#141 Whale milk is 50% fat.

#142 In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal.

#143 In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.

#144 The swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

#145 The blue whale is the largest of all whales and is also considered the largest animal to have ever existed in the world.

#146 Giraffes have no vocal cords.

#147 Starfish have five eyes – one at the end of each leg.

#148 There are almost 60 million dogs in the United States.

#149 After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

#150 A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.

#151 Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted in South Bend of the crime of smoking a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25 dollar fine!

#152 Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.

#153 The Mayans and Aztecs symbolised every tenth day with the dog, and those born under this sign were believed to have outstanding leadership skills.

#154 When a male tiger and female lion mate they make a tigon, when a male lion and female tiger mate they make a liger.

#155 French poodles did not originate in France – they came from Germany.

#156 The breeding age for male goats is between 8-10 months.

#157 Elephants don’t drink through their trunks like a straw.

#158 Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their mother’s length in the womb.

#159 Goats do not have teeth in their upper front jaw.

#160 Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin A and niacin than cow’s milk.

#161 Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but excellent sense of taste.

#162 Cats can hear ultrasound.

#163 Tuna fish can swim 40 miles in a single day.

#164 Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.

#165 Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.

#166 Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a cow’s to get blood to its brain.

#167 Blue whales have large enough aortas (the main blood vessel) for a human to crawl through.

#168 Some dogs can smell dead bodies under water!

#169 More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the US at Thanksgiving.

#170 Baby whales can gain up to 200 pounds per day.

#171 Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals in the air.

#172 Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

#173 Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer a heart attack.

#174 Barn owls hunt mostly small mammals such as the short-tailed vole.

#175 A ducks quack does echo, it’s just almost impossible to hear.

#176 A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in the wild.

#177 Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.

#178 Dogs are about as smart as a two or three-year-old child.

#179 Butterflies have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, this is known as the exoskeleton.

#180 Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.

#181 Polar bears are the world’s largest land predators.

#182 Hippos attract mates by urinating and defecating.

#183 Butterflies can only see the colors red, green and yellow.

#184 Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.

#185 There are roughly twenty-four thousand species of butterflies.

#186 A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in East Africa, Namibia and Angola.

#187 Dik-diks weigh between three and six kilograms.

#188 Female polar bears normally start having baby cubs at the age of four or five.

#189 Fireflies are also known as lightning bugs.

#190 Noctule bats fly before sunset, whereas Pipistrelles appear soon after sunset.

#191 In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes on their back feet and African jerboas have three.

#192 Even though a polar bears average body temperature is 37°C; they don’t give off any detectable heat, so they won’t show up in infrared photographs.

#193 Dogs can see better when the light is low.

#194 Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an old English term for a type of bee.

#195 Most young fireflies feed on nectar and pollen, although adult fireflies do not need to eat to survive.

#196 79% of pet owners sleep with their pets.

#197 Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.

#198 Many species of owls have special feathers for flying silently.

#199 An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

#200 The animal on the Firefox logo is not a fox, but a red panda.

#201 There is only one pink bottlenose dolphin which has been discovered, in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA.

#202 China has the most goats in the world, they have over 170 Million.

#203 A chicken with red ear lobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white ear lobes will produce white eggs.

#204 One survey reports that 33 percent of dog owners admit they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on answering machines while they are away.

#205 The average dog can run about 19 mph.

#206 The owl has a small brain.

#207 Snakes do not blink.

#208 A squid’s eye can get as big as a basketball.

#209 A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.

#210 Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild animals.

#211 There are currently over a million animal species upon planet earth.

#212 There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world.

#213 If you have a fear of chickens, then you actually have Alektorophobia.

#214 Dogs can see in color, though they most likely see colors similar to a color-blind human.

#215 Dogs have lived with humans for over 14,000 years.

#216 There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the world.

#217 The life of a housefly is only 14 days.

#218 The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6 months.

#219 Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.

#220 National Dance Like A Chicken Day falls on 14th May every year.

#221 The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer.

#222 The crocodile’s tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.

#223 Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph.

#224 The Basenji is the worlds only bark-less dog.

#225 Goats are quite agile creatures and in some cases they can jump over 5 feet.

#226 In 2006, 253 fish-species were listed as critically endangered.

#227 The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘pink sweat’.

#228 The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65 million years ago.

#229 The Irish deer is the largest deer to have ever existed. It went into extinction approximately 7,700 years ago.

#230 It costs approximately $10,000 to train a federally certified search and rescue dog.

#231 The color red doesn’t really make bulls angry; they are color-blind.

#232 A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.

#233 The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.

#234 According to records there are 50 million monkeys in the world!

#235 There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.

#236 Goats were the first animals to be used for milk by humans.

#237 The U.S. has the highest dog population in the world. France has the second highest.

#238 There are over 2700 types of snakes in the world and they live in deserts, forests, oceans, streams, lakes.

#239 Cows from different areas have a different moo accent.

#240 The male goat is called a “buck” or “billy”.

#241 The female goat is called a “doe” or “nanny”.

#242 A baby goat is called a “kid”.

#243 Dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can be used to identify them.

#244 Ailurophobia is the fear of cats.

#245 Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.

#246 Female bald eagles are 25% larger than males.

#247 Frogs don’t drink water. They absorb water through their skin.

#248 Suriphobia is the fear of mice.

#249 There are over 210 breeds of goats in the world.

#250 A polar bear’s outer fur is called ‘guard hair’.

#251 An adult lion’s roar is so loud; it can be heard up to five miles away.

#252 There is a shark called ‘goblin shark’ which has only been seen around 50 times since its discovery in 1897.

#253 There are approximately 450 million goats around the world.

#254 Dalmatians are completely white at birth.

#255 A beaver’s teeth never stop growing.

#256 Apiphobia is the fear of bees.

#257 The average dolphin eats one-third of its weight on food each day.

#258 Goats and octopus’ pupils of their eyes are rectangular.

#259 African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.

#260 The scales of a crocodile are made of keratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.

#261 Crocodiles eat stones.

#262 Crocodiles have brains no larger than a cigar.

#263 Cheetahs were trained by man for hunting as long as 3000 BC.

#264 Horses can’t vomit.

#265 Both male and female caribou grow antlers.

#266 Alternate American names for the Elk are the moose and the Wapiti.

#267 A group of frogs is called an army.

#268 Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.

#269 Starfish don’t die of old age.

#270 A male gorilla can eat 40 pounds of food a day.

#271 A group of whales is called a pod.

#272 Female harp seals get in groups to have their babies one mating season is over.

#273 When giraffes age, their fur darkens.

#274 Heron’s eggs have a greenish-blue pale color.

#275 You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

#276 All dolphins have a different whistle.

#277 Scientists had to go 45 million years back in history to find the elephant’s oldest ancestor.

#278 Tiger Day is the last Sunday in September.

#279 There is no visual difference between male and female herons.

#280 A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.

#281 Hyenas regularly eat the faeces of other animals.

#282 Frogs cannot swallow without blinking.

#283 A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.

#284 Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.

#285 The swan has over 25,000 feathers on its body.

#286 African elephants have bigger ears than Indian elephants.

#287 There is no record of a human being attacked by a healthy wolf.

#288 Hummingbirds are the only birds who can fly backwards.

#289 Dolphins can eat up to 30 pounds of fish a day.

#290 There’s a spider in Brazil whose bites can cause an erection that lasts for hours!

#291 There are no ants in Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica.

#292 Before they’re even born, sand tiger sharks eat their twin brothers and sisters!

#293 Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They’re 98% water.

#294 Rooster is simply a male chicken.

#295 Pikachu is a mouse type Pokémon.

#296 Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

#297 The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino.

#298 The slowest fish is the sea horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).

#299 Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

#300 The lifespan of a bush baby is 14 years.