46 Incredible Animal Facts You Didn't Knew Until Now

Check out these amazing facts that are sure to wow even the biggest animal lovers out there.

GK FACTS RELATED TO ANIMALS

1. Weighing in at 8 kg, sperm whale has the largest brain of all animals.
2. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
3. Being able to carry 850 times its own body weight makes rhinoceros beetles the strongest animal in the world.
4. Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
5. Snails are hermaphrodites and can fertilize each other.
6. Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
7. Aphid females are born already pregnant.
8. The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.
9. Leeches are said to have 32 brains.
10. Giraffes have black tongues and have no vocal chords.
11. On 2.5 km² of forest floor there are as many insects as there are people on Earth.
12. Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
13. The first scientifically recognized dinosaur egg fossils were discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1923.
14. An albatross can sleep while flying.
15. Zebra stripes act as a natural bug repellant.
16. Dolphins can hear sounds underwater from over 15 miles / 24 km away.
17. Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 metres in length.
18. Cockroaches are said to eat anything except cucumbers.
19. Male horses have way more teeth than their female counterparts.
20. Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.
21. Humans have about 9,000 taste buds, while dogs have only around 1,700.
22. Hummingbirds are so agile and have such good control that they can fly backwards.
23. Otters have the world's thickest fur.
24. Instead of bones, sharks have a skeleton made from cartilage.
25. A group of owls is called a parliament.
26. Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.
27. Snow leopards have less-developed vocal cords than their fellow large cats, meaning that they can't roar,
28. The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
29. Tigers have striped skin, and not striped fires.
30. Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.
31. Before chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.
32. Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
33. Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
34. Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.
35. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
36. Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur (which is transparent), it actually has black skin.
37. Ants don't sleep and don't have lungs.
38. The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
39. Oysters can change their gender multiple times during their life.
40. Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.
41. Reindeer eyeball are golden in summer but turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels.
42. Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not.
43. The longest earthworm ever found was 22 feet / 6.7 m long.
44. Red deer sleep no more than 5 minutes a day.
45. Silkworms have 11 brains.
46. A condor can soar for up to 9 miles / 15 km without flapping its wings.