Tuesday, June 9, 2009

General Informations

* A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
* Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
* A shrimp's heart is in their head.
* A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
* The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
* It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
* Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
* There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.
* Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
* Cat's urine glows under a black light.
* The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
* It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
* Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
* Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.
* A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
* The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
* There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard,
but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
* The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
* Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
* Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid
wolf ever attacked a human.
* It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course
of a summer.
* Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or
heart-shaped pupils.
* Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog,
the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
* The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. It is an Amazon water hog that looks like a
guinea pig; it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

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