- Roosters cannot crow if they cannot full extend their necks
- The Underside of horse's hoof is called the frog. The frog peels off several times
a year with new growth.
- A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle. A group of geese in the
air is called a skein.
- The longest recorded flight of chicken is thirteen seconds.
- New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.
- A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
- Reindeer milk has more fat than cows milk.
- It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- Shrimps hearts are in their heads.
- The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between
the two.
- Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard that their hooves fall off.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- A donkey will sink in quicksand, but a mule won't
- Pigs, walruses, and light colored horses can be sunburned.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- When a female horses and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule. When a
male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
- The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
- A flea expert is a pullicologist.
- A pig's skin is thickest at the back -- 1/6 of an inch.
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- The top knot that quails have is called a hmuh.
- A baby oyster is call a spat.
- A female swine, or sow, will always have an even number of teats or nipples, usually
twelve.
- Emus and ostriches are related. Their brown plumage is double-feathered.
Emus are prized for their emerald/forest green eggs because they can be carved with a
cameolike effect.
- It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cow's knees cannot
bend properly in order to walk back down.
- Bees must collect the nectar from two thousand flowers to make one tablespoonful of
honey.
- There are more beetles than any other kind of creatures in the world.
- A group of ravens is called a murder.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
- A Holstein's spots are like fingerprints -- no two cows have the same pattern of spots.
- A pig is a hog-hog is a generic term for all swine - but a hog is not a pig. In
the termology of hog raising, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old. Sources
2201 Fascinating Facts."
- Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
- Contrary to popular belief, animals are not all color blind. Many species,
including dogs, horses and sheep, can distinguish some colors - though not as well as
humans. Primates, specially chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys, have color vision equal
to that of humans.
- Another widely held belief - that bulls dislike the color red - is probably also wrong.
Experiments seem to show that it is the swirling movement of the matador's cape
that excites them. Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts."
- Ninety-nine percent of all lobsters die a few weeks after hatching. In fact,
the odds are 10,000 to 1 against any larval lobster living long enough to end up as a
lobster dinner.
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- Animals attend church services on St. Anthony's Day in Mexico, and many other places.
This popular saint, who is regarded as a healer of people and animals, is asked to
protect the animals. People decorate the animals with flowers and ribbons for the
occasion. In some rural areas, peasants also bring bags of insects and worms to be
blessed. They hope that this will prevent the creatures from damaging the crops.
Source: "Reader's Digest Book of Facts."
- In Maryland, a state law requires sail power a certain distance from the shore.
In order to dredge for oysters near shore, sailboats called "skipjacks" are
used.
- "Eat like a bird" is a popular saying meaning to eat very little.
However, many birds eat twice their weight in food a day. Source:
"Knowledge in a Nutshell."
- Emus cannot walk backwards.
- Only one in one thousand animals born in the sea survives to maturity.
- Today's cattle are descended from two species: wild aurochs -- fierce and agile
herd animals that populated Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an
antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
- The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
- A horse cannot vomit Neither can a rabbit.
- Reindeer like to eat bananas.
- Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying
any kind of life! What about milk? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass
is a living organism.
- Camel's milk does not curdle.
- It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance No. 352 in
Pacific Grove, California.
- You can tell the difference between male and female blue crab by looking at the design
located on the their apron (belly). The male blue crab design is in the shape of the
Washington Monument, while the female blue crab's apron resembles the U.S. Capital.
- An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
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