Animals Facts - Your Online Source for Facts About Animals

There are over 100 trillion animals - facts about some of them are right here on this website.

• The giraffe is the tallest animal in the world.

• All mammals are warm-blooded.

• There are over 73,000 different kinds of spiders.

• All mammals have a heart with four chambers.

• The elephant is the largest land animal.

• The bird with the biggest population is the Red-billed Quelea who lives in southern Africa.

• The largest lobster ever caught weighed 42 pounds.

• Denmark has more pigs than people.

• New Zealand has more sheep than people.

• The life of a house fly is two weeks.

• The world has over a billion cattle.

• There are 9000 different species of birds in the world.

• There are 6000 reptiles in the world.

• Anteaters do not have any teeth.

• One anteater can eat thirty thousand ants every day.

• There are 4,600 species of mammals in the world.

• The smallest dog is the Chihuahua.

• Animals fall into two groups: solitary and social.

• There are 200 million insects for every person on earth.

• There are 3000 different types of lice.

• Seventy-five percent of all wild birds die before they reach one-year old.

• Among animals--facts show that the pig is the fourth most intelligent.

• Whales are the biggest animal in the sea.

• Whales breathe through a hole in the top of their head.

• There are more sheep in Australia than people.

• Fish, insects and snakes do not have eyelids.

• There are 701 different breeds of dogs.

• Domestic cats purr at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine--about 26 cycles per second.

• Sharks have little spikes called denticles on their skin.

• There are 650 different types of leeches.

• The Big Five is a group of African animals--facts show the group consists of the elephant, leopard, cape buffalo, rhino and lion.

• Sharks can swim at 70 mph.

• Placentals are mammals who use a placenta during pregnancy.

• The number one dog in America is the Labrador retriever.

• The oldest horse lived to be sixty-two years old.

• The bird in the world with the largest population is the common chicken.

• When chickens and turkeys cross-breed they produce a turkin.

• An ostrich is the largest bird.

• An ostrich can run as fast as 70 mph.

• Coyotes, wolves, and dogs are all members of the same family.

• There are approximately 54 million dogs in the United States.

• The fastest bird in the world is the Spine-tailed Swift.. It can fly at 106 mph.

• Foxes feed on rodents, worms, insects, and birds.

• All mammals have 7 cervical vertebrate except seahorses who have eight.

• A wolf has a sense of smell 100 times greater than a human being.