Animal and Creatures Bizarre facts Page 1

Bizarre Fact #1:
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A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.

Bizarre Fact #2:
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A female ferret can die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Bizarre Fact #3:
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Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours.

Bizarre Fact #4:
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Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.

Bizarre Fact #5:
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Earthworms have 5 hearts.

Bizarre Fact #6:
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A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.

Bizarre Fact #7:
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A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds.

Bizarre Fact #8:
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A chameleon's tongue is as long as its body and head and can shoot out as fast as sixteen feet per second.

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A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.

Bizarre Fact #10:
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A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour.

Bizarre Fact #11:
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A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.

Bizarre Fact #12:
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A leech can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight.

Bizarre Fact #13:
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A leech has 32 brains.

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A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.

Bizarre Fact #15:
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A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair and keratin.

Bizarre Fact #16:
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A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.

Bizarre Fact #17:
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A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.

Bizarre Fact #18:
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A slug has four noses.

Bizarre Fact #19:
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A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length.

Bizarre Fact #20:
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A squirrel cannot carry the rabies virus.

Bizarre Fact #21:
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A turtle can breathe through its butt.

Bizarre Fact #22:
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A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.

Bizarre Fact #23:
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According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.

Bizarre Fact #24:
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An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.

Bizarre Fact #25:
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An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day.

Bizarre Fact #26:
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An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in its lifetime.

Bizarre Fact #27:
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An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time. An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.

Bizarre Fact #28:
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An ant can detect a movement through 5 centimeters of earth.

Bizarre Fact #29:
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An individual coral animal is called a polyp.

Bizarre Fact #30:
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An octopus has three hearts.

Bizarre Fact #31:
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An owl has three eyelids.

Bizarre Fact #32:
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Any animal that has skin hair or fur can get dandruff, but in animals it is called "dander."

Bizarre Fact #33:
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Approximately 200 pets are buried in a pet cemetery out of the thousands of pets that die each day.

Bizarre Fact #34:
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As a defense mechanism, the North American Opossum closes its eyes and becomes totally limp. Basically it plays dead.

Bizarre Fact #35:
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

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Bats can detect food up to 18 feet away and what type of insect the food may be using their sense of echolocation.

Bizarre Fact #37:
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Belize is the only country in the world with a jaguar preserve.

Bizarre Fact #38:
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Cattle can produce up to 180 litres of saliva in one day.

Bizarre Fact #39:
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Chameleon is derived from the Greek, meaning "little lion."

Bizarre Fact #40:
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Chameleons can move their eyes independently. One eye can be looking forward and one eye backward at the same time.

Bizarre Fact #41:
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Crabs have very small hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to help detect water currents and vibrations.

Bizarre Fact #42:
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Crocodiles can live for many months without eating because they don't use that much energy.

Bizarre Fact #43:
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Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region.

Bizarre Fact #44:
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Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity.

Bizarre Fact #45:
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During the 1800's, leeches were used as a tool for blood clotting. Leeches were so popular for this use that they became an endangered species.

Bizarre Fact #46:
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Each day, anywhere from 35-150 species of life go extinct.

Bizarre Fact #47:
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Estuarine crocodiles are the biggest of all 26 species of the crocodilian family.

Bizarre Fact #48:
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Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.

Bizarre Fact #49:
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Female alligators lay about 40 eggs that hatch in 60 - 70 days.

Bizarre Fact #50:
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From all the states, Montana has the most different species of animals.