Animal Facts

Here are some fun facts about animals of all kinds.
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Cats only sweat through their foot pads.
Cats can move their ears 180 degrees.
A cat has detected his human’s breast cancer.
A cat rubs against people to mark its territory.
Cats lick themselves to get your scent off.
When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members would shave off their eyebrows as they mourned.
Black cats are bad luck in the United States, but they are good luck in the United Kingdom and Australia.
Most cats don’t like water because their coats do not insulate them well enough.
Cat people are also 11% more likely to be introverted.
The largest litter of kittens produced 19 kittens.
The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Many birds kept as pets, including doves, parakeets, and lovebirds, enjoy living in pairs for companionship.
Owls turn their heads almost 360? (a complete circle) but they cannot move their eyes.
Chickens have over 200 distinct noises they make for communicating.
Female birds choose their mate based on how attractive they find them!
The first bird domesticated by humans was the goose.
Kiwi birds are blind, so they hunt by smell.
The Ameraucana chicken and Araucana can lay green or blue eggs.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two.
Crows have the largest cerebral hemispheres (brains), relative to body size, of any avian family.
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