Animal Facts!

Here are some animal facts that will blow your mind!

I haz a karot, and it is blowing my mind!

• There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth
• The reptiles have 6,000 species crawling in their habitats; and more are discovered each year
• There are over 70,000 types of spiders spinning their webs in the world
• There are 3,00 kinds of lice. Yes, it is the lice we are prone to get due to lack of hair hygiene 
• This is a mind-boggling fact- for each 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying...
• Mammals are the only creatures that have flaps around their ears 
• The world has approximately one billion cattle, of which about 200 million belong to India
• The life of a housefly is only 14 days
• A dog was the first animal up in space
• A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first animals to fly in a hot air ballon
• The oldest breed of dog know to mankind is the 'Saluki'
• An ostrich is the fastest bird that can run up to 70 km/h
• Never get a camel anger, or else he/she will spit at you
• There are crabs that are the size of a pea. They are known as 'Pea Crabs'
• The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months
• Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people
• You do not need cotton buds to clean a giraffes ears. It can do so with its own 50 centimeter tongue
• Want to know the appetite of a South American Giant Anteater? Well it eats over 30,000 ants per day
• The sailfish can swim at the speed of 109 km/h, making it the fastest swimmer 
• The Sea Horse is the slowest, drifting at approximately 0.016 km/h
• The small car on the road is probably the size of the heart of a blue whale 
• The length of an elephant is the same size as the tongue of the blue whale
• The crocodile's tongue is unmovable, as it is attached to the roof of it's mouth