Interesting and unusual facts

Here are some unusual animal facts.

Beneath a tiger’s fur, their skin is also the same colour as the fur attached to it. So if a tiger was bald, it would still have the same stripes and colours.

Pluto has not made a full orbit around the sun since it was discovered in 1930.

Slow Lorises are the only primate with a venomous bite. In humans the venom usually results in a painful swelling ,

Sloths need to climb down trees to get to the ground to poop. As sloths are very slow, they are vulnerable to attack when on the ground, sloths only poop once a week.

Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.

For every human in the world there are one million ants.

The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.

Alligators generally live between 30 & 50 years.

An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.

A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

The honey bee has been around for 30 million years.

A dog’s shoulder blades are unattached to the rest of the skeleton to allow greater flexibility for running

The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.

A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.

A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.

An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.