Some Weird Facts from the Animal Planet

• 1. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blown sand.
  
• 2. The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain.
  
• 3. Kangaroos are unable to walk backwards.
  
• 4. The most powerful home PCs still can’t process as many instructions per second as the brain of a goldfish.
  
• 5. Mouse urine glows under an ultra-violet light, which helps hawks to catch them.
  
• 6. The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1.
  
• 7. Tropical orb spiders weave webs that can be 5.4 meters in diameter.
  
• 8. You can’t catch malaria from male mosquitoes.
  
• 9. The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
  
• 10. The sexuality of an oyster is affected by water temperature.
  
• 11. The giant squid has the largest eyes on the planet.
  
• 12. The most dangerous animal to man in the world is the mosquito.
  
• 13. A kiwi’s egg is so large that it takes up around a third of the mother’s body cavity.
  
• 14. A jellyfish is 95% water.
  
• 15. The largest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
  
• 16. Dogs can be trained to detect epileptic attacks in humans up to one hour in advance.
  
• 17. Baby robins eat 5 meters of earthworms every day.
  
• 18. Bulls are colorblind and will charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is.
  
• 19. One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen.
  
• 20. The call of a humpback whale is louder than a jet at takes off.
  
• 21. The tallest recorded tree was an Australian eucalyptus measured in 1872 as 132 meters tall.
  
• 22. The starfish is one of the only animals that can turn its stomach inside out.
  
• 23. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly.
  
• 24. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
  
• 25. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
  
• 26. The puma has more common names than any other mammal in the world—more than 40 in all.
  
• 27. Dragonflies have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight in insects.
  
• 28. In normal conditions, raindrops hit your head at 29 kilometers per hour.
  
• 29. The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1 kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1966.
  
  

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Khorsheed.com – Jul 2003