Amazing Facts You Didn’t Know About Animals

Ostrich

Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions.

Bat

Bats are the only mammals that can fly.

Kangaroo

Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.

Flea

Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.

Elephant

Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. They are also one of the three mammals that undergo menopause – the other two being humpback whales and human females.

Koala

Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else

Beaver

Because beavers’ teeth never stop growing, they must constantly gnaw on objects to keep them at a manageable length. Their teeth would eventually grow into their brain if they didn’t maintain them.

Ant

Beware an ant uprising! There are one million ants for every human in the world. These resilient creatures also never sleep and do not have lungs

Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and their wings can beat at up to 80 times per second.

Seahorse

The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph.

Dog

Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.

Giraffe

Giraffes have no vocal cords and their tongues are blue-black in color.

Snail

  A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.