Animals Facts
Frog Facts
Some frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and continue living.
Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down!
Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica.
Wood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen state.
When threatened, the horned toad shoots blood from it's eyes.
Unlike a frog a toad cannot jump.
There is a substance in the skin of the African clawed frog that helps in fighting infection.
The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore.
The smallest frog is the "Brazilian baby frog", which is smaller than a dime.
The mating call of a male toadfish, who are underwater, is so loud that it can be heard by humans above water.
Monkey Facts
The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard!
Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
Squirrel Monkeys are the most common monkey in South-America.
Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.
Squirrel Monkeys move through trees by leaping.
Colobus monkey’s bushy tails, which often exceeds the length of their bodies.
Colobus monkeys have a long, black fur coat with a white stripe running down the sides of their backs to their tails.
Monkey Facts
Most hamsters blink one eye at a time.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
Lion Facts
Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood.
Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.
A lion feeds once every three to four days.
Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.
Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days.
The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.
Horse Facts
A female seahorse lets her husband store her babies inside his stomach!
Sea horses pull themselves around with their chins leading them.
Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.
Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions.
A horse will respond to your emotions/feelings mainly because they are very sensitive animals. Example: if you are angry / frustrated the horse will be frustrated also. But if you are happy and smiling the horse should be good in your lesson or ride.
There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.
Fish Facts
The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
A slug has four noses.
Octopuses have 3 hearts.
A goldfish can live up to 40 years.
A starfish doesn't have a brain.
Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.
The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!
Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.
Starfish have eight eyes - one at the end of each leg.
The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.
