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Bizarre Animal Facts
Bizarre Animal Facts
| - A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
- An adult blue whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute.
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
- A group of rhinos is called a crash.
- A horse has 18 more bones than a human.
- Alligators cannot move backwards.
- Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
- A blue whale is the loudest animal.
- Black cats are considered lucky in some European countries.
- The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to 4 years.
- A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it.
- An elephant can smell water three miles away.
- There are more cows than people in the US.
- Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth.
- The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.
- An ant can lift 50 times it's own weight.
- It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
- It is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20 736 kittens in four years. (Please get your cats fixed!)
- Turtles can breathe through their butts.
- For every human in the world there is 15 dogs an 45 cats. (Again fix your pets!)
- Starfish don't have brains. (how sad!)
- Scared of sharks? Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. About 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
- You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.
- More people each year are killed from bees than from snakes.
- A cockroach can go nine days without eating.
- A giraffe's tongue is about 21 inches long.
- Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
- Sharks are immune to cancer.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years.
- There are 200 000 000 insects for every 1 person on earth.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
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