Animals are amazing things; all of us are unique and sometimes very unusual in our behavior. we are fascinated by nature, and so we have put together a list of all of the very best and most interesting and downright funny facts about animals we could find.

16 Unique Facts about Animals

) The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. But if we base it on the exact anatomy of a shrimp, its heart is located on its thorax just after the head, but both the head and thorax are covered with a single exoskeleton only, that is why the shrimps thorax can be mistaken as still part of the shrimp head...

2) A snail can sleep for three years. Conditions that drive snails to sleep for 3 years include winter and high temperatures such as summer. During winter, snails go into hibernation. … Snails roll into their shells and bury themselves underground to escape such weather, sleeping for up to 3 years or more. Sometimes even unto their own deaths

(3) The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene. …

(4) Slugs have four noses. A slug has organs that it uses to smell, but their tentacles is not a traditional nose in the sense of an organ, situated on the face, with two nostrils that breathe and smell



(5) Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump. Elephants can’t jump—and here’s why. Despite what you may have seen in your Saturday morning cartoons, elephants can’t jump, according to a video by Smithsonian. … Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don’t have the “spring” required to push off the ground

6) A rhinoceros’ horn is made of hair. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn

(7) It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach. To hypnotize a lizard or a frog, put it on its back and hold it still for a few seconds. Remove your hands, and it will remain motionless. To remove the hypnosis flip it back over. Though they can sense vibrations, snakes are deaf


(. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food. In fact, they actually only defecate once every 8 days! Sloths rely on bacteria in their stomachs to digest their food. Also, their rate of digestion is dependent on the temperature. If it’s night time, or they’re in the shade, their digestion rate slows.


9) Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine

10) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

11) Bats always turn left when leaving a cave. This has been explained to be so because bats generally move by sensing echoes and thus in order to get out, there should be a system to avoid collisions.


(12) Giraffes have no vocal cords.

13) Kangaroos can’t fart.

Kangaroos produce methane as part of their digestive process, researchers found. Since the 1970s, it has been suggested that kangaroos don’t fart — or rather, the (ahem!) gas they emit contains very little, if any, methane. … Methane is naturally created by bacteria in an animal’s gut

14) Ostrich  has the biggest eyes in the whole animal kingdom. Its eye is bigger than its brain. Ostriches don’t hide their head in the sand. They will lay their head on the ground if they sense a danger.


(15) Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees regularly.

16) Frogs cannot vomit. If one has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.If a frog eats something toxic, it can’t eject its stomach contents. Instead, the frog throws up its entire stomach. This is called full gastric eversion, and it’s a little like dumping out your pockets...visit link below for more amazing facts about animals

https://thewildanddomestic.com/16-unique-facts-about-animals/

Would love to try this.
It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach

Fulaniherdmens:
Would love to try this.
It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach

eewww, I hate frogs, although would love to see someone else try it while I watch...laughs

Papillae:
Animals are amazing things; all of us are unique and sometimes very unusual in our behavior. we are fascinated by nature, and so we have put together a list of all of the very best and most interesting and downright funny facts about animals we could find.

16 Unique Facts about Animals

) The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. But if we base it on the exact anatomy of a shrimp, its heart is located on its thorax just after the head, but both the head and thorax are covered with a single exoskeleton only, that is why the shrimps thorax can be mistaken as still part of the shrimp head...

2) A snail can sleep for three years. Conditions that drive snails to sleep for 3 years include winter and high temperatures such as summer. During winter, snails go into hibernation. … Snails roll into their shells and bury themselves underground to escape such weather, sleeping for up to 3 years or more. Sometimes even unto their own deaths

(3) The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene. …

(4) Slugs have four noses. A slug has organs that it uses to smell, but their tentacles is not a traditional nose in the sense of an organ, situated on the face, with two nostrils that breathe and smell



(5) Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump. Elephants can’t jump—and here’s why. Despite what you may have seen in your Saturday morning cartoons, elephants can’t jump, according to a video by Smithsonian. … Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don’t have the “spring” required to push off the ground

6) A rhinoceros’ horn is made of hair. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn

(7) It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach. To hypnotize a lizard or a frog, put it on its back and hold it still for a few seconds. Remove your hands, and it will remain motionless. To remove the hypnosis flip it back over. Though they can sense vibrations, snakes are deaf


(. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food. In fact, they actually only defecate once every 8 days! Sloths rely on bacteria in their stomachs to digest their food. Also, their rate of digestion is dependent on the temperature. If it’s night time, or they’re in the shade, their digestion rate slows.


9) Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine

10) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

11) Bats always turn left when leaving a cave. This has been explained to be so because bats generally move by sensing echoes and thus in order to get out, there should be a system to avoid collisions.


(12) Giraffes have no vocal cords.

13) Kangaroos can’t fart.

Kangaroos produce methane as part of their digestive process, researchers found. Since the 1970s, it has been suggested that kangaroos don’t fart — or rather, the (ahem!) gas they emit contains very little, if any, methane. … Methane is naturally created by bacteria in an animal’s gut

14) Ostrich  has the biggest eyes in the whole animal kingdom. Its eye is bigger than its brain. Ostriches don’t hide their head in the sand. They will lay their head on the ground if they sense a danger.


(15) Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees regularly.

16) Frogs cannot vomit. If one has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.If a frog eats something toxic, it can’t eject its stomach contents. Instead, the frog throws up its entire stomach. This is called full gastric eversion, and it’s a little like dumping out your pockets...visit link below for more amazing facts about animals

https://thewildanddomestic.com/16-unique-facts-about-animals/

I love this, nice article via the link man, with cool pictures

Papillae:
Animals are amazing things; all of us are unique and sometimes very unusual in our behavior. we are fascinated by nature, and so we have put together a list of all of the very best and most interesting and downright funny facts about animals we could find.

16 Unique Facts about Animals

) The heart of a shrimp is located in its head. But if we base it on the exact anatomy of a shrimp, its heart is located on its thorax just after the head, but both the head and thorax are covered with a single exoskeleton only, that is why the shrimps thorax can be mistaken as still part of the shrimp head...

2) A snail can sleep for three years. Conditions that drive snails to sleep for 3 years include winter and high temperatures such as summer. During winter, snails go into hibernation. … Snails roll into their shells and bury themselves underground to escape such weather, sleeping for up to 3 years or more. Sometimes even unto their own deaths

(3) The fingerprints of a koala are so indistinguishable from humans that they have on occasion been confused at a crime scene. …

(4) Slugs have four noses. A slug has organs that it uses to smell, but their tentacles is not a traditional nose in the sense of an organ, situated on the face, with two nostrils that breathe and smell



(5) Elephants are the only animal that can’t jump. Elephants can’t jump—and here’s why. Despite what you may have seen in your Saturday morning cartoons, elephants can’t jump, according to a video by Smithsonian. … Unlike most mammals, the bones in elephant legs are all pointed downwards, which means they don’t have the “spring” required to push off the ground

6) A rhinoceros’ horn is made of hair. The horns are made of keratin, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Both African species and the Sumatran rhinoceros have two horns, while the Indian and Javan rhinoceros have a single horn

(7) It is possible to hypnotize a frog by placing it on its back and gently stroking its stomach. To hypnotize a lizard or a frog, put it on its back and hold it still for a few seconds. Remove your hands, and it will remain motionless. To remove the hypnosis flip it back over. Though they can sense vibrations, snakes are deaf


(. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest its food. In fact, they actually only defecate once every 8 days! Sloths rely on bacteria in their stomachs to digest their food. Also, their rate of digestion is dependent on the temperature. If it’s night time, or they’re in the shade, their digestion rate slows.


9) Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine

10) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

11) Bats always turn left when leaving a cave. This has been explained to be so because bats generally move by sensing echoes and thus in order to get out, there should be a system to avoid collisions.


(12) Giraffes have no vocal cords.

13) Kangaroos can’t fart.

Kangaroos produce methane as part of their digestive process, researchers found. Since the 1970s, it has been suggested that kangaroos don’t fart — or rather, the (ahem!) gas they emit contains very little, if any, methane. … Methane is naturally created by bacteria in an animal’s gut

14) Ostrich  has the biggest eyes in the whole animal kingdom. Its eye is bigger than its brain. Ostriches don’t hide their head in the sand. They will lay their head on the ground if they sense a danger.


(15) Around 50 percent of orangutans have fractured bones, due to falling out of trees regularly.

16) Frogs cannot vomit. If one has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.If a frog eats something toxic, it can’t eject its stomach contents. Instead, the frog throws up its entire stomach. This is called full gastric eversion, and it’s a little like dumping out your pockets...visit link below for more amazing facts about animals

https://thewildanddomestic.com/16-unique-facts-about-animals/

#2 is so true.

I am something of a farmboy so I am quite intimate with the fact that snails can be such great sleepers.

You dig long enough into the soil whilst working on the farm and you will keep coming up with dead snails or those that are still hibernating.

It was such fun digging up those things back then. Sometimes, I would just hasten up their death by crushing their shells.

Crazy things we did as kids.

mansakhalifa:


#2 is so true.

I am something of a farmboy so I am quite intimate with the fact that snails can be such great sleepers.

You dig long enough into the soil whilst working on the farm and you will keep coming up with dead snails or those that are still hibernating.

It was such fun digging up those things back then. Sometimes, I would just hasten up their death by crushing their shells.

Crazy things we did as kids.

hahaha, so funny, I can relate to it... smiles

Except if you are beautiful

Papillae:


eewww, I hate frogs, although would love to see someone else try it while I watch...laughs