* 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: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:14:26 +0000
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