Many Amazing Facts about Animals-I

• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
• A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
• Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
• Bald eagles may use the same nest year after year, adding more twigs and branches each time. One nest was found that had been used for 34 years and weighed over two tons.
• Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
• A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet - but red looks like black.
• A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
• A zebra is white with black stripes.
• Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
• Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
• 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
• Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
• Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
• The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
• The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs  covering a meter a second.
• The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.
• Ticks are second only to the mosquito as the most dangerous parasites to humans.
• According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
• A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
• Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
• Bald eagles can actually swim! They use an overhand movement of the wings that is very much like the butterfly stroke.
• Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.
• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
• A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.
• Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
• Female fleas consume fifteen times their weight daily.
• A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
• When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
• The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.
• A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
• Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
• A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
• Certain Chinese and American alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
• Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
• Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.
• The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.
• The sailfish, the swordfish and the mako shark have all been clocked at swimming over 50mph.
• Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.
• The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
• Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
• The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
• Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
• An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
• The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
• Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.
• A group of herring is called a seige.
• A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
• Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F, which is why they don't immediately gulp down the half-eaten can of food from the refrigerator