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.