Here are some weird animal facts we have compiled over the years at camp!


Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.

Cockroaches do not like cucumbers.

Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world

On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight

Polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Starfishes haven't got brains.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

All porcupines float in water

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Cats urine glows under a black light

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards

Tigers have stripped skin, not just stripped fur.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They

actually pass out from sheer terror.

Some frogs can vomit up their own stomachs so they can be cleaned. With their feet.

Deloused armadillos and hedgehogs will die.

A giraffe cleans its ears with its tongue. Mmmmmmmm

An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.

A camel's backbone is just as straight as a horse's.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

A duck has three eyelids.

A group of finches is called a Charm.

A group of frogs is called an army.

A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein.

A group of goats is called a Trip.

A group of hares is called a Husk.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A group of rhinos are called a crash.

A group of toads is called a knot.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a four foot tall child inside.

A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn in a day.

A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.

A pig always sleeps on its right side.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

A rodent’s teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark,

leaves, and other vegetables.

A single sheeps fleece might well contain as many as 26 million fibres.

A snail can have 25,000 teeth.

A snail takes 33 hours to crawl one mile.

A snake has no ears.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

A square mile of fertile earth has 32,000,000 earthworms in it.

A squirrel cannot contract or carry the rabies virus.

A strand from the web of the golden spider is as strong as a steel wire of the same size.

A woodchuck breathes only 10 times in hibernation.

After eating, the housefly regurgitates its food and eats it again.

An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

Anteaters prefer termites opposed to ants.

At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Hippopotamuses do eighty percent of their vocalization under water.

If monkeys eat too many un-ripe bananas their tongue and eyes will turn green.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death

If two flies were left to reproduce without predators or other limitations for one year, the resulting mass of

flies would be the size of the Earth!

If you have a tapeworm in your stomach it will come up while you're asleep lick the salt off your lips.

Iguanas, koalas, raccoons, snakes and Komodo dragons all have two penises.

It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.

Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs or wolves.

Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Mongooses were brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are nocturnal while the Mongoose hunts during the day.

Mosquitoes are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world's wars combined.

Mosquitoes have teeth

Moths have no stomach

Only female mosquitoes bite!

Ostriches can run 50 miles per hour.

Ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.

Penguins are found in the Antarctic, not Arctic.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Rat's can't vomit

Roosters cannot crow if they can't fully extend their necks

Scorpions can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can.

Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.

Seals must teach their young how to swim

Slugs have four noses.

Small cockroaches are more likely to die on their backs than large cockroaches.

Spiders have transparent blood

Tarantulas do not use muscles to move their legs. They control the amount of blood pumped into them to extend and retract their legs

The average porcupine has more than 30,000 quills.

The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.

The deepest penguin dive was 1261 ft under the water.

The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink.

The female ferret is referred to as a jill..

The hippo has skin an inch and a half thick, so solid that most bullets cannot go through.

The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal

The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.

The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

The shrimp's heart is in its head.

The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes -- two in the center of its head and one on top

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny

There are 1 million ants for every person in the world.

Turkeys can drown in the rain by looking up at the precipitation with their mouths open.

When angered, the Tazmanian devil turns pinkish-red.

A hippo can run faster than a man.

A horse can sleep standing up.

A horse has 35 square feet of skin.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

A kangaroo can hop 30 feet at once

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is on the ground

A lion's roar can be heard a mile away

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.

A 6-pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.

A blue whales heart only beats 9 times per minute.

A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.

A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old ones.

A crocodile will some times eat other crocodiles.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

A 2-year-old horse has 6 incisors.

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.

Polar bears are the only mammals with hair on the soles of their feet.

A goldfish kept in a dark room will turn white.

If a frog's mouth is open too long it will suffocate.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

A elephant can smell water 3 miles away.

A elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.

Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Armadillos can be house broken.

Armadillos can have up to 4 babies at a time and they are all the same sex.

Goats eyes have rectangular pupils.

Black lemurs are the only primates that can have blue eyes.

It takes 7 years for a lobster to weigh 1 pound.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven-neck vertebra.

a cat has 4 rows of whiskers.

The memory span of a gold fish is 3 seconds.

Cats can hear ultrasound

The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract its claws.

The Sumatran tiger has the most strips of all the tiger subspecies, and the Siberian Tiger has the

least

Tigers paw prints are called pug marks.