Animals facts.....

Approximately 50% of Orangutans have fractures or broken bones from falling out of trees.

Rabbit milk is the most caloric of all mammals.

A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel

Birds don’t have receptors for capsaicin. Capsaicin is the molecule responsible for providing the heat in spicy food. Spike your bird food with some cayenne and it will deter the squirrels.

cows have digestive enzymes in their noses which is why you often see them with their tongues in their nostrils.
It helps them digest their food better.

Steve Irwin, the Crocodile hunter, fights crocodiles, venomous snakes, and sharks but is scared of birds.
Crocodile Hunter is scared of parrots, because they always bite him and have "nearly torn his nose off", while he says he's been "catching crocodiles since I was nine".

Sharks are amazing!
Tiny ultra-sensitive ears can detect the movement of prey within a quarter of a mile!
Hypersensitive nostrils can detects a single drop of blood in the water up to 50 yards away. The jaws of a great white can exert 42,600 pounds per square inch of pressure - 24 times the power of a jackhammer.
Great whites have 50 triangle-shaped teeth at any given time. The narrow bottom ones grab and hold prey while the top row cuts the flesh. As front teeth are broken or lost, they are replaced by the new ones from multiple rows of reserves.


The starfish is the only animal that can turn its stomach inside out.
The cardiac stomach, which is a sacklike stomach located at the center of the body, may be everted - pushed out of the organism's body and used to engulf and digest food. Some species take advantage of the great endurance of their water vascular systems to open the shells of mollusks (clams, mussels, etc.), and inject their stomachs into the shells. Once the stomach is inserted inside the shell it digests the mollusk in place!


Dolphins are the only other mammals besides humans that have sexual intercourse for pleasure and not necessarily for the purpose of fertilization.
Most dolphins have a brain roughly equal in weight to an average human brain. It is estimated that they have the intelligence of a two-year old human.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Only female mosquitoes bite.
The mosquito's probiscis is very sharp and thin, so it's often not even felt. After sucking in about 5 microliters (5 x 10-6 liters), the mosquito flies off. Unfortunately, some saliva remains in the wound causing swelling and itching.


Penguins have a special organ that turns salt water into fresh water.
Turns out a gland near their beaks filters the saltwater -- once the gland gets full, a penguin will knock his beak on a rock to empty the salt out

A hive of bees must pollinate 2 million flowers to collect the nectar to make one pound of honey. For this they must fly a total distance of approximately 55,000 miles -- or more than twice around the globe.
Honey is effectively regurgitated nectar that has been partially digested by a honeybee.

The most dangerous animal on the planet is a mosquito.
At the top of the risk list from mosquitoes is malaria. Even after decades of battling against the mosquito carrier, an amazing 40% of the world's population, mostly those living in the world's poorest countries, is still at risk of malaria. The disease causes more than 300 million acute illnesses each year and over a million deaths annually, mainly children under five.