Interesting facts about animals that will amaze you!!

Interesting Facts about animals that will amaze you!!

A tiger’s legs are so powerful that they can remain standing even when dead . They have fake eyes called “ ocelli ”. These white spots of fur on the back of each ear scare other animals. It looks like the tiger is watching them, even when its head is turned the other way or it’s sleeping. There are six groups or “subspecies” of tiger : SouthChina , Indochinese, Sumatran, Siberian and Bengal tigers. Would you like to guess which tiger is the biggest? It’s the Siberian from Russia and China..

Cows are highly social animal . They have best friends and get stressed when separated . A cow has 32 teeth and chew about 50 times in a minute, making their jaws move about 40,000 times a day. They can see almost 360 degrees, but not very well straight in front of them. Cows spend 10 to 12 hours a day lying down, but most of that is well-earned relaxation time, not sleep. In fact, an average cow will only sleep about four hours a day. Sleep studies have also shown that, like in humans, lack of sleep can affect a cow's health, productivity, and behavior..

Sheep have large rectangular pupils allowing them to see almost 360 degrees They also and have an excellent sense of smell. Sheep also communicate through vocalizations, often called bleating. A female sheep that has given birth to a lamb is called an ewe. Ewes are able to recognize which lamb is theirs just by the sound of their calls. Sheep do not have top front teeth in fact they have a hard upper palate that the lower teeth press up against to breakdown food. Sheep can self-medicate. They eat specific plants and other substances that otherwise hold no nutritional value to them to prevent or treat disease, and teach their young to do them same..

Elephants Use Their Trunks Much Like We Do Our Hands ! There Are Two Main Species of Elephant , the African elephant and the Asian elephant. The Asian elephant is smaller in size with smaller ears, whereas the African elephant is larger. In fact, African elephant is the largest land animal. Elephants eat a herbivorous diet, including roots, grasses, fruit, and bark. They eat 16hours a day! Elephants communicate through both sound and touch. T hey can also communicate via inaudible vibrations called ‘rumbles”. E lephants can pick up sounds that even we humans cannot hear by picking these up with their bones . They don’t just hear these frequencies in their bones, they can also produce them to communicate..

Foxes are nocturnal animals and cunning predators. They commonly hunt small vertibrates and invertibrates . They are also solitary animals, meaning they sleep and hunt alone and only stay in packs when they are raising their cubs . Foxes have whiskers on their legs and face, which help them to navigate . Foxes live in underground dens and can make 40 different sounds. . Foxes have incredible hearing. They use their hearing to catch insects and small mammals by pouncing from where the smell is. Foxes are able to smell food even when it is buried underground. Their sense of smell is so strong!.

Giraffes are the tallest mammals on Earth. Their legs alone are taller than many humans—about 6 feet . Giraffes only need 5 to 30 minutes of sleep in a 24-hour period! They often achieve that in quick naps that may last only a minute or two at a time . Giraffes used to be known as ‘camel leopards’, due to their tall structure and leopard-like pattern. The scientific name today has not changed – Camelopardalis . Despite their characteristic long necks, giraffes actually have the same number of neck vertebrae as humans—just seven..

There are two types of camels: One humped or “dromedary” camels and two humped Bactrian camels . Camels have three sets of eyelids and two rows of eyelashes to keep sand out of their eyes. They can also completely shut their nostrils during sandstorms . They have thick pads of skin on their chest and knees, camels can comfortably sit in very hot sand They actually can sleep standing up, which helps keep them safe from predators. They sleep about six hours per night, and can withstand major temperature changes from the sweltering heat of the day to the cold desert nights.