General Knowledge About Animals

          Book of General Knowledge about Animals 
         Initially we are sharing basic general knowledge about animals please participate in this and add more knowledge by adding your comments

• The Earth has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.
• All polar bears are left handed
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
• The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby
• A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow)
• A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
• No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
• A butterflie have 6 Legs & 2 Pair of Wings & has 12,000 eyes.
• Human birth control pill works on gorillas.
• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
• Owl is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.
• The Swan has over 25,000 feathers in its body.
• Elephant teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
• Crane sleeps standing on one leg.
• Shark cannot see, they are very sensitive to sound.
• A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears .
• Ants don’t sleep.
• A cheetah can run 76 kilometers per hour (46 miles per hour)
• Kiwis are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.
• Cassowary is one of the dangerous birds that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
• The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.