If you’re looking for the most interesting list
of animal facts, you’re at the right place!
Here are 300 of the best fun & random facts
about animals!
1. Gorillas can catch human colds and
other illnesses.
2. A newborn Chinese water deer is so
small it can almost be held in the palm
of the hand.
3. Ostriches can run faster than horses,
and the males can roar like lions.
4. A lion in the wild usually makes no
more than twenty kills a year.
5. The female lion does ninety percent of
the hunting.
6. The only dog that doesn’t have a pink
tongue is the chow.
7. Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles,
alligators, dolphins, whales, and other
water going creatures will drown if
kept underwater too long.
8. Almost half the pigs in the world are
kept by farmers in China.
9. On average, dogs have better eyesight
than humans, although not as colourful.
10. Deer have no gall bladders.
11. There is an average of 50,000 spiders
per acre in green areas.
12. Snakes are carnivores, which means
they only eat animals, often small ones
such as insects, birds, frogs and other
small mammals.
13. In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in
someone’s ear while they’re moose
hunting.
14. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
15. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that
no bat can walk.
16. Some male songbirds sing more than
2000 times each day.
17. The only mammals to undergo
menopause are elephants, humpback
whales and human females.
18. The chicken and fish are the only
animals that are eaten before they are
born and after they die.
19. A tarantula spider can survive for more
than two years without food.
20. For every human in the world there are
one million ants.
21. If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the
ground it can’t hop – they use their tails
for balance.
22. If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it
will become pale!
23. Cows can sleep standing up, but they
can only dream lying down.
24. The sentence “The quick brown fox
jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter
of the alphabet.
25. The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
26. The scientific name of the red fox is
Vulpes vulpes.
27. Alligators can live up to 100 years.
28. A single elephant tooth can weigh as
much as 9 pounds.
29. The turkey is one of the most famous
birds in North America.
30. A housefly hums in the key of F.
31. During World War II, Americans tried to
train bats to drop bombs.
32. Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name
for a grey wolf.
33. To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw,
push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will
let you go instantly.
34. It is much easier for dogs to learn
spoken commands if they are given in
conjunction with hand signals or
gestures.
35. Even a small amount of alcohol placed
on a scorpion will make it go crazy and
sting itself to death!
36. Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females
are “does.”
37. The flamingo can only eat when its
head is upside down.
38. Animals generate 30 times more waste
than humans which is 1.4 billion tons
every year.
39. Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have
lungs.
40. A group of owls is called a parliament.
41. Just one cow gives off enough harmful
methane gas in a single day to fill
around 400 litre bottles.
42. Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic,
which may be deadly to dogs.
43. Cows have four stomachs.
44. An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its
mouth is only an inch wide.
45. The blue whale weighs as much as
thirty elephants and is as long as three
Greyhound buses.
46. A herd of sixty cows is capable of
producing a ton of milk in less than a
day.
47. A grasshopper can leap 20 times the
length of its own body.
48. At birth, baby kangaroos are only about
an inch long—no bigger than a large
water bug or a queen bee.
49. The smell of a skunk can be detected by
a human a mile away.
50. There is a butterfly in Africa with
enough poison in its body to kill six
cats!

51. Cats have lived with people for only
7,000 years.
52. A black panther is really a black leopard.
53. The honey bee has been around for 30
million years.
54. The dumbest dog in the world is the
Afghan hounds.
55. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
56. A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached
to the rest of the skeleton to allow
greater flexibility for running.
57. Tigers have striped skin as well as their
fur.
58. Hippos can run faster than humans!
59. The Latin name for moose is alces alces.
60. The earliest European images of dogs
are found in cave paintings dating back
12,000 years ago in Spain.
61. Iguanas, koalas and komodo dragons
all have two joysticks!
62. The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees.
Today there are eight different kinds of
tree kangaroos.
63. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per
second.
64. The great horned owl has no sense of
smell.
65. Scientists have performed brain surgery
on cockroaches.
66. The flea can jump up to 200 times its
own height. This is equal to a man
jumping the Empire State Building in
New York.
67. Most elephants weigh less than the
tongue of a blue whale.
68. The very first bomb that the Allies
dropped on Berlin in World War Two hit
an elephant.
69. A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in
its head.
70. A moth has no stomach.
71. George Washington’s teeth were made
of elephant ivory, and walrus tusks.
72. Reindeer milk has more fat than cow
milk.
73. Goats and sheep are seasonal breeders.
74. An elephant can smell water up to 3
miles away.
75. Deer can’t eat hay.
76. A skunk will not bite and throw its
scent at the same time.
77. In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented
the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims
to interpret a dog’s exact mood by
measuring the wag of its tail.
78. Every day of the year, 100 whales are
killed by whale fisherman.
79. If you cut off a snail’s eye, it will grow a
new one.
80. The ostrich has two toes on each foot
which gives it greater speed.
81. Lonomia obliqua is the world’s
deadliest caterpillar.
82. ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a
goldfish.
83. The most dogs ever owned by one
person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by
Kubla Khan.
84. On average, cows poop 16 times per
day!
85. The phrase “raining cats and dogs”
originated in seventeenth-century
England. During heavy rainstorms, many
homeless animals would drown and
float down the streets, giving the
appearance that it had actually rained
cats and dogs.
86. The most poisonous fish in the world is
the stone fish.
87. Killer whales are not whales at all,
rather a species of dolphin.
88. Goats were the first animals
domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.
89. Dogs have sweat glands in between
their paws.
90. The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
91. We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
92. We share 98.4% of our DNA with a
chimp.
93. Fireflies do not bite or have pincers.
Fireflies are harmless, they don’t even
carry diseases.
94. Chocolate, macadamia nuts, cooked
onions, or anything with caffeine is
harmful to dogs.
95. No two tigers ever have the same
stripes, and this is how individual tigers
can be identified.
96. The American Kennel Club, the most
influential dog club in the United States,
was founded in 1884.
97. The longest recorded life span of a slug
was 1 year, 6 months.
98. A whale’s heart beats only nine times a
minute.
99. Elephants are covered with hair.
100. Female koala’s have two vagina’s.

101. A python can swallow a rabbit whole
and may eat as many as 150 mice in a
six-month period.
102. The placement of the eyes of a donkey
enables them to see all four of their legs
at all times.
103. At birth, a panda is smaller than a
mouse and weighs about four ounces.
104. Oysters can change from one gender to
another and back again depending on
which is best for mating.
105. Fireflies are the only creatures that give
off light without generating heat.
106. Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to
80 times per second.
107. Only half of a dolphin’s brain sleeps at a
time. The other awake half makes the
dolphin come up for air when needed
to prevent drowning.
108. Dogs have about 1,700 taste buds.
109. It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL
with enough leather for a year’s supply
of footballs.
110. A completely blind chameleon will still
take on the colours of its environment.
111. A rodent’s teeth never stop growing.
112. When young abalones feed on red
seaweed their shells turn red.
113. Small quantities of grapes and raisins
can cause renal failure in dogs.
114. The hippopotamus is born underwater.
115. Taurophobia is the fear of bulls.
116. A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per
hour.
117. One million stray dogs and 500,000
stray cats live in New York City
metropolitan area.
118. You can tell a turtle’s gender by the
noise it makes. Males grunt, females
hiss.
119. An elephant’s trunk has around 15,000
muscles. 200 litres of water is drunk
from it per day.
120. The most popular female dog name is
Maggie. The most popular male dog
name is Max.
121. A large group of goats is called a herd.
122. Squirrels cannot see the colour red.
123. The average chicken lays about 260
eggs per year.
124. A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
125. Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs
make it to adulthood.
126. Ferrets sleep around 20 hours a day.
127. Birds can recognise landmarks.
128. The starfish is the only animal capable
of turning its stomach inside-out.
129. Male dogs will raise their legs while
urinating to aim higher on a tree or
lamppost because they want to leave a
message that they are tall and
intimidating. Some wild dogs in Africa
try to run up tree trunks while they are
urinating to appear to be very large.
130. Sharks have been around longer than
dinosaurs.
131. About two-thirds of shark attacks on
humans have taken place in water less
than six feet deep.
132. Sharks are immune to cancer!
133. Worldwide, more people eat and drink
milk from goats than any other animal.
134. Alligators cannot move backwards.
135. The most popular dog breed in Canada,
America, and Great Britain is the
labrador retriever.
136. The largest giant squid ever found
weighed 8,000 pounds.
137. Approximately 100 people die each
year when they are stepped on by
cows.
138. A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.
139. Humpback whales create the loudest
sound of any living creature.
140. Hippo’s sweat is pink.
141. Whale milk is 50% fat.
142. In Croatia, scientists discovered that
lampposts were falling down because a
chemical in the urine of male dogs was
rotting the metal.
143. In the Caribbean there are oysters that
can climb trees.
144. The swan has over 25,000 feathers in
its body.
145. The blue whale is the largest of all
whales and is also considered the
largest animal to have ever existed in
the world.
146. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
147. Starfish have eight eyes – one at the
end of each leg.
148. There are almost 60 million dogs in the
United States.
149. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its
food and then eats it again.
150. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in
just one night.

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@number 13, why?

151. Back in 1924, a monkey was convicted
in South Bend of the crime of smoking
a cigarette and sentenced to pay a 25
dollar fine!
152. Flamingos are pink because shrimp is
one of their main sources of food.
153. The Mayans and Aztecs symbolised
every tenth day with the dog, and those
born under this sign were believed to
have outstanding leadership skills.
154. When a male tiger and female lion mate
they make a tigon, when a male lion
and female tiger mate they make a liger.
155. French poodles did not originate in
France – they came from Germany.
156. The breeding age for male goats is
between 8-10 months.
157. Elephants don’t drink through their
trunks like a straw.
158. Baby whales grow to a 1/3 of their
mother’s length in the womb.
159. Goats do not have teeth in their upper
front jaw.
160. Goat’s milk is higher in calcium, vitamin
A and niacin than cow’s milk.
161. Turkeys have a poor sense of smell, but
excellent sense of taste.
162. Cats can hear ultrasound.
163. Tuna fish can swim 40 miles in a single
day.
164. Bumblebees have hair on their eyes.
165. Penguins can jump 6 feet out of water.
166. Giraffe hearts pump twice as hard as a
cow’s to get blood to its brain.
167. Blue whales have large enough aortas
(the main blood vessel) for a human to
crawl through.
168. Some dogs can smell dead bodies
under water!
169. More than 45 million turkeys are
cooked and eaten in the US at
Thanksgiving.
170. Baby whales can gain up to 200
pounds per day.
171. Dogs have a wet nose to collect more of
the tiny droplets of smelling chemicals
in the air.
172. Cats have over one hundred vocal
sounds, while dogs only have about
ten.
173. Cat owners are 30% less likely to suffer
a heart attack.
174. Barn owls hunt mostly small mammals
such as the short-tailed vole.
175. A ducks quack does echo, it’s just
almost impossible to hear.
176. A cheetahs lifespan is up to 12 years in
the wild.
177. Shark corneas are being used in human
eye transplants.
178. Dogs are about as smart as a two or
three-year-old child.
179. Butterflies have their skeletons on the
outside of their bodies, this is known
as the exoskeleton.
180. Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
181. Polar bears are the world’s largest land
predators.
182. Hippos attract mates by urinating and
defecating.
183. Butterflies can only see the colours red,
green and yellow.
184. Yellowtail is the general name for loads
of different species of fish that have
yellow tails or a yellow body.
185. There are roughly twenty-four
thousand species of butterflies.
186. A dik-dik is a tiny antelope that lives in
East Africa, Namibia and Angola.
187. Dik-diks weigh between three and six
kilogrammes.
188. Female polar bears normally start
having baby cubs at the age of four or
five.
189. Fireflies are also known as lightning
bugs.
190. Noctule bats fly before sunset, whereas
Pipistrelles appear soon after sunset.
191. In general, Asiatic jerboas have five toes
on their back feet and African jerboas
have three.
192. Even though a polar bears average
body temperature is 37°C; they don’t
give off any detectable heat, so they
won’t show up in infrared
photographs.
193. Dogs can see better when the light is
low.
194. Dumbledore isn’t only the Headmaster
of Hogwarts; in fact a dumbledore is an
old English term for a type of bee.
195. Most young fireflies feed on nectar and
pollen, although adult fireflies do not
need to eat to survive.
196. 79% of pet owners sleep with their
pets.
197. Two dogs were among the Titanic
survivors.
198. Many species of owls have special
feathers for flying silently.
199. An elephant can smell water up to 3
miles away.
200. The animal on the Firefox logo is not a
fox, but a red panda.

201. There is only one pink bottlenose
dolphin which has been discovered, in
an inland lake in Louisiana, USA.
202. China has the most goats in the world,
they have over 170 Million.
203. A chicken with red ear lobes will
produce brown eggs, and a chicken
with white ear lobes will produce white
eggs.
204. One survey reports that 33 percent of
dog owners admit they talk to their
dogs on the phone or leave messages
on answering machines while they are
away.
205. The average dog can run about 19
mph.
206. The owl has a small brain.
207. Snakes do not blink.
208. A squid’s eye can get as big as a
basketball.
209. A puppy is born blind, deaf, and
toothless.
210. Agrizoophobia is the fear of wild
animals.
211. There are currently over a million
animal species upon planet earth.
212. There are over 70,000 types of spiders
spinning their webs in the world.
213. If you have a fear of chickens, then you
actually have Alektorophobia.
214. Dogs can see in colour, though they
most likely see colours similar to a
colour-blind human.
215. Dogs have lived with humans for over
14,000 years.
216. There are 3,000 kinds of lice in the
world.
217. The life of a housefly is only 14 days.
218. The lifespan of 75% of wild birds is 6
months.
219. Denmark has twice as many pigs as
there are people.
220. National Dance Like A Chicken Day falls
on 14th May every year.
221. The sailfish can swim at the speed of
109 km/h, making it the fastest
swimmer.
222. The crocodile’s tongue is unmovable, as
it is attached to the roof of its mouth.
223. Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on
Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph.
224. The Basenji is the worlds only bark-less
dog.
225. Goats are quite agile creatures and in
some cases they can jump over 5 feet.
226. In 2006, 253 fish-species were listed as
critically endangered.
227. The hippopotamus’s skin is protected
by its own pink oily secretion known as
‘pink sweat’.
228. The Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct 65
million years ago.
229. The Irish deer is the largest deer to
have ever existed. It went into
extinction approximately 7,700 years
ago.
230. It costs approximately $10,000 to train
a federally certified search and rescue
dog.
231. The colour red doesn’t really make bulls
angry; they are color-blind.
232. A herd of unicorns is called a blessing.
233. The oldest recorded elephant lived for
82 years.
234. According to records there are 50
million monkeys in the world!
235. There are an estimated 400 million
dogs in the world.
236. Goats were the first animals to be used
for milk by humans.
237. The U.S. has the highest dog population
in the world. France has the second
highest.
238. There are over 2700 types of snakes in
the world and they live in deserts,
forests, oceans, streams, lakes.
239. Cows from different areas have a
different moo accent.
240. The male goat is called a “buck” or
“billy”.
241. The female goat is called a “doe” or
“nanny”.
242. A baby goat is called a “kid”.
243. Dog nose prints are as unique as
human finger prints and can be used to
identify them.
244. Ailurophobia is the fear of cats.
245. Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.
246. Female bald eagles are 25% larger than
males.
247. Frogs don’t drink water. They absorb
water through their skin.
248. Suriphobia is the fear of mice.
249. There are over 210 breeds of goats in
the world.
250. A polar bear’s outer fur is called ‘guard
hair’.

This thread is so educative