Mark's
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Useless Facts
about
Animals

Niether the emu or kangaroo can walk backwards. This is why they're on the Australian Coat of Arms.

The average flea can jump up to 150 times its own length. To match that a human would have to jump 1,00
-feet.

More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

-A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves death.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

A cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

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

Starfish haven't got brains.

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