Animals Cool Facts!! 0.o

A giraffe can clean it's ears with it's 21-inch tongue.
The cat comes closer than any other animal except the owl and the ape to having binocular vision, similar to that of humans.
Gorillas sleep for as much as fourteen hours per day.
The cat has been living in close association with humans for somewhere between 3,500 and 8,000 years.
The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.
Cats have five toes on each front paw, but only four toes on each back paw.
The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
Herons will strike at shiny things- like your eyes.
All dogs, from the German Shepherd to the tiny Poodle, are direct descendants of wolves.

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.
A dog can hear sounds 250 yards away that most people cannot hear beyond 25 yards.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Elephants are the only animals that cant jump.
The sounds of the T rex in Jurassic Park were recorded from a bird.
An elephant raises it's trunk when it senses danger.

A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion.
Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
The jaguar enjoys swimming.
Pigeons drink water through their "nose" (holes in their bill).

Most snakes have either only one lung, or in some cases, two, with one much reduced in size.

The shark is the world's largest predatory fish.
An old synonym for snake is serpent (which comes from Old French, and ultimately from *serp-, "to creep".

They use their rough skin to generate a layer of turbulence over their skin, which acts as a lubricant to allow the surrounding water to pass them faster, and hense allow them to swim faster.
All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards and other snakes, rodents and

other small mammals, birds, eggs or insects.
Great whites are found in all the oceans of the world, at all latitudes.
The siberian tiger is the largest cat species in the world.
The Bengal Tiger is the most common subspecies of tiger, constituting approximately 80% of the entire tiger population.
Humans are the tiger's most significant predator, as tigers are often poached illegally for their fur.
The five "polar bear nations" in which the bears are found include the U.S. (Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), and Norway.
Polar bears do not live in the southern hemisphere.
The scientific name for the polar bear is Ursus maritimus, which means 'Sea Bear' in the Greek language.

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