20 Amazing Facts About Animals and Birds

20 Amazing Facts About Animals and Birds

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

Female Lion

The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car, and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.

Blue Whale

 A hummingbird's eggs are pea sized. A newborn is about an inch long and weighs about one-third of a U.S. Dime.

Humming Bird's Egg

 The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest species of jellyfish, reaching a width of 7.5 feet, with tentacles up to 121.4 feet long.

Lion Mane Jellyfish

 A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Female Lion

 Sea otters sometimes hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting apart.

Sea Otter

 In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.

Queen Bee

 Leaf insects take on the appearance of leaves, and even rock back and forth when walking, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind.

Leaf Insect

 Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

Goldfish

 The purple frog spends most of the year underground, surfacing for about two weeks, during the monsoon season, in order to mate.

Purple Frog

 Dolphins have been trained to turn in trash in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide paper under a rock and tear off small pieces in order to get more fish.

Dolphin

 A chicken loses feathers when it becomes stressed.

Chicken without Feather

 Koalas rarely drink. They generally get enough fluids just from eating eucalyptus leaves.

Koala

 A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.

Honey Bee

 Snakes and lizards shed their skin when they grow. Researchers believe that dinosaurs may have done the same.

Snake

 Humans have about 10,000 taste buds, but catfish have over 100,000, while chickens have only 24.

 Marine iguanas can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes.

Marine Iguana

 The world's largest bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, a rare fruit bat. It has a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m)

Flying Fox

 The world's fattest cat, Himmy, weighed 46.8 pounds.

Himmy

 Elephants can communicate by sound waves below normal human hearing. They can also communicate with seismic, vibrations produced by impacts on the earth's surface.

Elephants