Do you like animals? Would you like to have the wild and exotic ones like snakes and reptiles; or the tamed, cute, and cuddly ones like dogs and cats? Each animals have their own unique abilities. These abilities help them in catching their prey, protect them in time of danger and enable them to survive. Animals are one of the living creatures created by God; plants, trees, rocks, mountains, volcano, seas, you and me, we  are all living creatures because we have life. Animals are very significant and each of them have distinct roles in sustaining our ‘eco’ system. Here are some of the things which you may not know about these animals.

1. Whales are wrapped in a 20 inch layer of fat or blubber to help insulate them against cold.
2. Camels have very little fat throughout their bodies and instead keep it contained in their humps.
3. Turtles have no teeth.
4. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
5. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they’re crying.
6. Camels can spit.
7. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
8. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
9. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
10. A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth. It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail, Glass pieces, etc.
11. Animals are either right or left handed. Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.
12. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
13. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
14. A frognamed Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
15. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
16. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey.
17. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
18. A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow!).
19. The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’ .
20. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
21. Ants don’t sleep.
22. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
23. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time.
24. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time.
25. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its “nose-leaf”.
26. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
27. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
28. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
29. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
30. Pig’s Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
31. A duck’s quack doesn’t echo anywhere.
32. A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
33. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
34. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
35. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
36. Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a “snake charmer”. Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
37. Many spiders have eight eyes.
38. The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called “Jacobson’s organs”, on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
39. Birds don’t sweat.
40. The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft
41. Flamingo tongues were eaten common at Roman feasts
42. The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz
43. Along with its length neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue — more than a foot and a half long. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue
44. Ostriches can kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don’t Mess with them
45. An elephant can smell water three miles away
46. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
47. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.
48. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
49. Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint.
50. The world’s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons i.e. 50000 Kg at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons i.e. 150000 Kg.
51. Mountain lionsare known by more than 100 names, including panther, catamount, cougar, painter and puma. It’s scientific name is Felis concolor, which means “cat of one color.” At one time, mountain lions were very common!
52. The large cats of the world are divided into two groups- those that roar, like tigers and African lions, and those that purr. Mountain lions purr, hiss, scream, and snarl, but they cannot roar.
53. Mountain lions can jump a distance of 30 feet, and jump as high as 15 feet. It would take quite a fence to keep a mountain lion out!
54. Mountain lions favorite food is deer, but they’ll eat other critters as well. They hunt alone, not in packs like wolves.
55. A lion can eat ten pounds of meat at one time! That’s equivalent to 40 quarter-pounder hamburgers!
56. A full-grown male mountain lion may be 9 feet long, including his tail!
57. Queen ants can live to be 30 years old.
58. The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!
59. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
60. Some worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food!
61. The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length. That’s bigger than your hand!
62. The earthwormis a well-known fishing bait, and it is sometimes called a fishworm or angleworm. Do you know that an earthworm has five pairs of “hearts” in the front part of its body. The “hearts” help circulate the worm’s blood.