Some Fun Animal Facts!

There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.

Camels have three eye lids.

Flying squirrels don’t really fly, they glide from branch to branch. A blanket-like furry skin stretches their front and hind legs, and acts as a parachute, enabling the squirrel to soar like a kite.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

No two zebras have the same striped pattern.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.

Toucans are found only in tropical areas of Central and South America. Some Toucan species have bills more than half as long as their bodies.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

The longest recorded life span of a tapeworm was 35 years!


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AMAZING ANIMAL FACTS! Facts are Fun!
Here are some amazing and sometimes humorous facts about the fantastic world of animals.

There are only three animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.

Camels have three eye lids.
Submitted by Christina.

Flying squirrels don’t really fly, they glide from branch to branch. A blanket-like furry skin stretches their front and hind legs, and acts as a parachute, enabling the squirrel to soar like a kite.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Our thanks to Sarah for sending us this Fun Fact.

No two zebras have the same striped pattern.
Our thanks to Tracy for sending us this Fun Fact.


An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

A beaver can hold it's breath for 45 minutes.
Our thanks to Greg Anderson for sending us this Fun Fact.

Toucans are found only in tropical areas of Central and South America. Some Toucan species have bills more than half as long as their bodies.

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards.

The longest recorded life span of a tapeworm was 35 years!


Roadrunners are large (about two feet long) crested birds that prefer to run rather than fly. They eat rattlesnakes whole, and they can sprint 15 miles per hour.

A purple finch is really crimson in color.

You're 20 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to be bit by a rattlesnake.

A male Angler fish attaches itself to a female and never lets go. Their vascular systems unite and the male becomes entirely dependent on the female's blood for nutrition.

Bengal tigers are the most water loving of the big cats. They will even chase prey into the water.

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Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.

A cat's jaws can not move sideways.

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

Armadillos can be house broken.


Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

Armadillos can walk underwater. Fun animal facts.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

The Pug dog is thought to have gotten it's name from looking like the pug monkey.

The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

A bear has 42 teeth.

A cat has four rows of whiskers.

When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.

Porcupines float in water.

Giraffes have no vocal cords.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Hamsters love to eat crickets.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Camel's milk does not curdle.

There are only two animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear and the Chow dog.

A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

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

A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

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An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.

Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

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.

Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.

Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.

Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.