Some weird animal facts

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

An adult blue whale's heart beats about 6 times a minute.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A horse has 18 more bones than a human.

Alligators cannot move backwards.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

A blue whale is the loudest animal.

Black cats are considered lucky in some European countries.

The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to 4 years.

A blue whale's tongue is so large that 50 people could stand on it.

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

There are more cows than people in the US.

Tiger sharks can have anywhere from 10 to 80 young in one birth.

The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.

An ant can lift 50 times it's own weight.

It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.

It is possible for one female cat to be responsible for the birth of 20,736 kittens in four years. (Please get your cats fixed!)

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

For every human in the world there is 15 dogs an 45 cats. (Again, fix your pets!)

Starfish don't have brains. (how sad!)

Scared of sharks? Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. About 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth.

More people each year are killed from bees than from snakes.

A cockroach can go nine days without eating.

A giraffe's tongue is about 21 inches long.

Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Snails can sleep for 3 years.

There are 200,000,000 insects for every 1 person on earth.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.