Animal Trivia

How many of these did you know?

• Birds do not urinate.

• The bat is the only mammal capable of flight. Its leg bones are so thin that it cannot walk.

• Despite their fluffy white fur, Polar Bears actually have black skin.

• The average housefly lives only 2 to 3 weeks.

• Alligators and sharks can live for up to 100 years.

• A honeybee has two stomachs: one for honey and one for food.

• A blue whale’s heart is the size of a car.

• 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 prompt other dolphins to assist, helping it surface to breathe.

• A snail can sleep for up to 3 years.

• A cow produces nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

• The average outdoor cat lives only 3 years, while indoor-only cats can live 16 years or longer.

• A mosquito’s proboscis has 47 sharp edges to help it cut through skin and even protective clothing.

• Flamingos are not born pink. They hatch with white or gray feathers and develop their pink color over time as they eat certain foods

• Koalas have fingerprints that are nearly identical to humans.

• Crocodiles can gallop like horses

• Otters “hold hands” while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other.

• The smell of a skunk is powerful enough for a human to smell it up to 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away.

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