Fun Animal Facts

The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.

The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.

A black panther is really a black leopard.

Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats.

The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.

At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.

A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.

The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.

Cows have four stomachs.

Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.

Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Ants do not have lungs.

Ants never sleep.

Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

Male rabbits are called “bucks,” females are “does.”