- It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The
numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15
to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
- The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide
is the mosquito.
- The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain,
North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
- Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.
- If a male cat is both orange and black it is (besides being
extremely rare) sterile. To have both the orange and the black
coat colors, the male cat must have all or part of both female
X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome combination will render
the male cat sterile.
- A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat
cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.
- Ants don't sleep.
- Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this,
they cannot move their eyes.
- A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby
or a cat.
- The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary.
They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was
Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."
- There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
- A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
- Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50
feet in length.
- A baby bat is called a pup.
- It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of
its shell.
- Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60
mph.
- Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been
proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
- There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United
States. Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their
pets each year.
- Cat's urine glows under a black light.
- The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches
in length.
- It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many
as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
- Amphibians' eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even
have square or heart-shaped pupils.
|
