Animal Instinct

• A duck's quack doesn't echo
• The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs
• Pigs are the only animals other than humans that can get a sun burn.
• A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
• The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
• Butterflies taste with their feet
• Elephants are the only animals that can'tjump (thankfully)
• A cat's urine glows under black light (And stinks forever)
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
• When pressured for grazing space, kangaroos have been known to kill competing sheep
• Sloths sleep up to 20 hours a day and get attain by eagles a lot because of it
• Camels can survive in the desert without drinking for almost 3 months
• The parrots intelligence is comparable to a 5 year old child
• If a wolf gets its leg caught in a trap, it will chew it off
• Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water
• Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue
• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death
• A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out
• A shrimp's heart is in their head
• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
• A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours
• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
• A snail can sleep for three years
• Kermit the Frog is left-handed
  
  SHARKS
• Sharks have upper and lower eyelids but they do not blink
• The most harmless sharks tend to be the largest
• There are 370 species of sharks
• Jaws is the most common name for Goldfish in the U.K
• Some sharks swim in a figure eight when frightened
• Sharks have survived on earth for about 400 million years
• Some sharks may eat other sharks
• Florida averages the greatest number of shark attacks annually
• A shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime
  
  POLAR BEARS
• Polar bears depend mostly on their sense of smell to determine the location of prey
• Polar bears are left handed
• The polar bear's entire body is furred, even the bottom of its paws
• The scientific name for the polar bear is Ursus maritimus, which means 'Sea Bear' in Greek
  
  DOGS
• An city dog lives on average three years longer than an country dog
• A dog's nose has over 200 scent receiving cells
• Dogs mouths are 200 times more cleaner then human mouths
• Marie Antoinette’s dog was a spaniel named Thisbe
• There is a doggy disco held in Italy every year where owners can dance with their dogs
• 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave them messages on an answering machine
  
  LIONS
• Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago
• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion
• More people are killed in Africa by crocodiles than by lions
• Along with all other cats, African lions are in the order Carnivora and the family Felidae
• Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Real Quickies, They should talk to the pig)
• African lions live in Senegal east to Somalia, East Africa, Angola, northern Namibia and from Kalahari east to Mozambique and northern Nata
• In the wild, males live 12 -16 years, females 15 -18 years
• "Singapore" means "City of Lions"
• Actor Sylvester Stallone once had a job as a lion cage cleaner
• Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than all the lions, elephants, and water buffalo combined, usually by trampling
• Lions are unique among the cats, since they live in large social groups called prides
  
  CATS
• 21% of dogs and 7% of cats snore
• Black cats are considered lucky in England
• Most cats have no eyelashes
• Cat's fur easily becomes charged with electricity and sparks can be seen if their fur is rubbed in the dark
• Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine
• A cat cannot see directly under its nose
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but dogs only have about ten
• A cat keeps purring, no matter if it is inhaling or exhaling
• Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw
• A cat's arching back is part of a complex body language system
• The cat was domesticated over 4,000 years ago
• Cats have true fur, in that they have both an undercoat and an outer coat
• The cat was the symbol of liberty in ancient Rome
• Cats do not think that they are little people. They think that we are big cats