Weird Animal Facts - Printable Version

+- InsaneTrain Forums (https://insanetrain.com)
+-- Forum: General (https://insanetrain.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=4)
+--- Forum: General Forum (https://insanetrain.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=8)
+--- Thread: Weird Animal Facts (/showthread.php?tid=7143)

---

Weird Animal Facts - Hambone - 06-27-2004

A cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A hummingbird’s heart beats 615 beats in a minute.

A snail can sleep for three years.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Earthworms have 5 hearts.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Female and male black bears cannot tolerate being around each other except when they breed.

Great White sharks have about 3,000 teeth.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s like a human jumping the
length of a football field.

---