Facts About Animal

• Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
• After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
• Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed!
• All dogs are identical in anatomy – 321 bones and 42 permanent teeth
• Dogs are all direct descendants of wolves
• After birth, puppies’ eyes do not fully open until they’re about 12 days old and their vision is not fully developed until after the 1st month.
• A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.
• The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as ‘eggs’ often laid in or near fresh water.
• Dogs have no sense of “time”
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
• Starfish don’t have brains.
• A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
• All polar bears are left handed.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr!
• The Irukandji jellyfish is only 2.5 centimetres in diameter, but can cause death to humans within days.
• The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours.
• Shark’s need to swim, or they will sink!
• Fairy Penguins live for an average of seven years.