Amazing Facts DO YOU KNOW?yAnts don't sleep. yOwls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes. yA bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat. yThe mouse is the most common mammal in the US. yA new born kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. yA cow gives nearly 200,000 g lasses of milk in her lifetime. yThe Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dog s. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island ofDogs." yThere are 701 types of pure breed dogs. yA polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel. yTapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length. yA baby bat is called a pup. yGerman Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog. yA female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time. yIt takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for othertypes of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100. yThe animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. yThe biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939. yCats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound. yA cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor. yPigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned. ySnakes are immune to their o wn poison. yAn iguana can stay underwater for 28 minutes. yCats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. yThe biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms). yMost lipstick contains fish scales. yRats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, t wo rats could have over a million descendants. yEach day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats. yA shrimp's heart is in their head. yA pregnant goldfish is called a t wit. yA cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. yThe cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe. yA woodpecker can peck t wenty times a second. yIt may take longer than t wo days for a chick to break out of its shell. yDragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flyi ng 50 to 60 mph. yDespite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non- rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
