Funny Animal Knowledge

 

1. You may be a cow pull stairs, down the stairs, but the cattle do not understand.
2. Pigs can not upward to see the sky.
3. Duck calls are not an echo, and no one knows why not.
4. Snail can sleep without eating for three years.
5. Cats may be issued more than 100 sounds, dogs can only send 10 tones.
6. A giraffe's tongue has two feet long.
7. Elephants can stand up.
8. Ants will wake up scratching.
9. The world's oldest goldfish is 41 years old, named Fred.
10. A caterpillar who has more than two thousand muscles.
11. Owls are the only birds can distinguish blue.
12. A whale one minute heart rate is only 9.
13. A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its own body.
14. Elephant's death will remain standing posture.
15. Some insects can no longer live for the first year.
16. Cows listening to music can supply more milk.
17. Hippopotamus run faster than people quickly.
18. Bats are the only mammals that can fly

14 Interesting Facts About Elephants:

1. Sometimes people would think : the African and Asian elephants are the same species, but geographic location is different, but from an evolutionary point of view, they are in fact as Asian elephants and mammoths species exist independently.
2. And is the closest kinship elephant rock hyraxes - one kind of body small, furry mammal, living in sub-Saharan Africa and along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
3. African elephant is Earth's largest land mammal and female African elephants suffer the longest pregnancy of all organisms , usually lasted 22 months.
4. Despite the great size, but they are also very much afraid of some small animals. One study showed that they avoid eating one kind of acacia tree, because it is the home of ants. Although the elephant foot can tread these ants to pieces, but elephants are afraid ants will crawl into their trunk, because the trunk is full of sensitive nerve endings.
5. Elephants do not like peanuts. Even if they are starving to death in the wild would not eat peanuts, while being kept in zoos do not give elephants feeding peanuts.
6. Mother elephant is usually a group of 15, all with the " matriarch " There are relatives and under its leadership, and the " matriarch " is usually the oldest of which, it decided that all members of the 365 days a year All whereabouts.
7. Male elephants usually choose to leave at the age of 12 to 15 female elephants, but they are not alone - they can join the male elephants. In dry season, these male elephants will form a hierarchical leadership to protect against injuries and competition to more water.
8. Asian elephant will not run. Because the need for all four legs together when running off the ground, but living in Thailand Asian Elephant usually keep at least two feet on the ground.
9. African elephant through its sensory cells detect seismic signals. Ground shaking at first spread from the forefoot at the thigh and shoulder bone , and then pass the middle ear , and ultimately makes the elephant be able to " hear " earthquake. By comparing each of its forepaws acceptable signal strength, the elephant can determine the direction of these sounds.
10. And human infants, gorillas, magpies and dolphins, elephants also passed the mirror test, that they recognize themselves in the mirror.
11. Elephants may also be sunburn, so they will be very careful to protect themselves. " Elephants and head back toward them sprinkle some sand, a purpose of doing so is to avoid the sun burns, and the other is for free from parasites distress." Elephant House and the Smithsonian's National Zoo Cheetah Conservation Station curator Tony Barthel said. In order to protect their offspring, as will their baby adult immersed in the sand, and they sleep on the side guard .
12. A recent study confirmed previously circulated on the African elephant from eating fermented Ma Lula tree fruit and " drunk " story is not true. Elephants do not eat fermented fruit on the ground, they ate fresh fruit, and fresh fruit in their digestive tract can not stay so long to ferment, and even elephants really eat fermented fruit, it is also eat a full 1400 to make them " drunk."
13. There are study confirmed that elephants have evolved out of the first six toes. This toes began cartilage, and elephants big toe together, but it will increase with age and gradually transformed into bone.
14. Some farmers in Kenya through placing beehives at the border to prevent elephants invaded their territory, so that not only protects the crops, the farmers also obtained an extra income - honey.