Facts About Animals

• here are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth. 
• The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year.
• There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world.
• Well, there are 3,000 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene.
• This is a mind-boggling fact – for each of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying...
• Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears.
• The world has approximately one billion cattle, of which about 200 million belong to India.
• The life of a housefly is only 14 days.
• A dog was the first animal to up in space.
• A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first animals to fly in a hot air balloon. The oldest breed of a dog known to mankind is the ‘Saluki’.
• An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h.
• Never get a camel angry, for he or she will spit at you.
• There are crabs that are the size of a pea. There are known as ‘Pea Crabs’.
• The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months.
• Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
• You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffe ears. It can do so with its own 50cm-tongue.
• Want to known the appetite of a South American Giant Anteater? Well it eats over 30,000 ants, per day.
• The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer.
• The Sea Horse is the slowest fish, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h.
• The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale.
• The length of an elephant is the same as the tongue of a blue whale.
• The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of its mouth.