Animal Facts

Here are some fun facts about animals of all kinds.
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Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur!
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
Turtles can live for more than 100 years.
Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms.
Unlike dogs, pigs, and some other mammals, humans cannot taste water. They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Vultures fly without flapping their wings.
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
What you find when you shave the striped fur off of a tiger? Striped skin.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
Worms reportedly taste like bacon.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a poisonous spider!
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
There are 88 million pet cats and 74 million dogs in the United States making cats the most popular pet.
There are some cats who are known to survived falls from over 32 stories onto concrete.
There are over 20 muscles that control a cat's ears.
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