Amazing_Facts_You_Didnt_Know Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions. Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop. Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their skin. No two tigers ever have the same stripes. Cat has 32 muscles in each ear. All the better for them to eavesdrop on your conversations and plot your demise. Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else. Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating. Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colors red, green and yellow. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them. Pigs communicate constantly with one another; more than 20 vocalizations have been identified that pigs use in different situations, from wooing mates to saying, “I’m hungry!” The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph. You might want to thank a squirrel the next time you enjoy the shade of a tree. Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:19:06 +0000
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