20 Insane Animals Facts That You Never Knew

1. A tarantula spider can survive more than two years without food.
2. Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream while laying down.
3. If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will become pale!
4. The bones in a bat’s leg are so thin that no bat is able to walk.
5. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
6. A housefly hums in the key of F.
7. Ants never sleep. They also don’t have lungs.
8. At birth, a baby kangaroo is only about an inch long – no longer than a large water bug or a queen bee.
9. Hippos can run faster than humans!
10. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
11. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
12. Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a time, allowing the other half the make the dolphin come up for air when needed to prevent drowning.
13. You can tell a turtles gender by the sound it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
14. Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.
15. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
16. Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs. Chickens with red earlobes produce brown eggs.
17. A quid’s eye can get as big as a basketball.
18. Humming birds are the only birds that can fly backwards.
19. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
20. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.

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