Facts About Animals

  • ... it is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because its knees cannot bend properly to walk back down
  • ... it is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
  • ... a flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down
  • ... hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards
  • ... a zebra is white with black stripes
  • ... an albatross can sleep while flying
  • ... crocodiles can go as long as a year without eating
  • ... a cockroach can live for a week without a head
  • ... only female mosquitoes bite
  • ... dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water
  • ... when food is hard to find, the camel gets energy from the fatty tissue in the hump
  • ... owls can not move their eyes because they have eyeballs that are tubular in shape
  • ... goat's eyes have rectangular pupils
  • ... an ostrich's eyes is bigger that its brain
  • ... a chameleon can move its eyes in two different directions at the same time
  • ... a cat has four rows of whiskers

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