ANIMAL TRIVIA
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Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have
exactly the same pattern of spots.
A newborn
kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A polecat
is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A quarter
of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A zebra is
white with black stripes.
All pet
hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a
litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An adult
lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or
reunites scattered members of the pride.
An
albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25
mph.
An
ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
At the end
of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible
only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a
lightning strike.
Cheetahs
make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The
sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Dolphins
sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to
the surface for air
Elephants
can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between
14 and 35 hertz.
George
Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was
Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff
Davis.
Infant
beavers are called kittens.
Large
kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
Lassie was
played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male collies
were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was named Pal.
Lassie,
the TV collie, first appeared in a 1930s short novel titled Lassie Come-Home
written by Eric Mowbray Knight. The dog in the novel was based on Knight's
real life collie, Toots.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Of all
known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent
still exist today.
Owls have
eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their
eyes.
Parrots,
most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than
twenty words, however Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been know to
carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
Sharks
apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known,
they are immune to every known disease including cancer. |
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