Few Weird and Amazing Animal Facts

• Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air.


• A group of Kangaroos is called a mob.


• A young Kangaroo is called a Joey.


• Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.


• Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water.


• The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird.


• It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g).


• A bear can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h).


• Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.


• Polar bears are left handed.


• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.


• Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.


• Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.


• The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) means 'barking dog'.


• Snakes can see through their eyelids.


• A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.


• Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking.


• Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain.


• The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.


• Butterflies tast sensors are in their feet.


• They taste their food by standing on it.


• Katydids have ears in their front legs.


• The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle.


• It can lift 850 times its own weight.


• Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food.


• The flying frog uses flaps of skin between its toes to glide.


• The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth.


• It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute.


• The Chameleon's tongue is as long as its body.


• The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once.


• The Kangaroo's ancestors lived in trees.


• Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.


• Flamingos eat with their heads upside down to strain the water out of their food.


• Many snakes never stop growing.


• That's one reason they must shed their skin.


• The Artic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in each place.


• The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world.


• It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans.


• A hippopotamus can stay under water for up to 30 minutes.


• The Basenji is the only dog which does not bark.


• Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping.