New Animal Trivia...

came across this page with some animal trivia that i have not heard of...

http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/a-triv.html

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

"A newborn kangaroo is even more helpless than a human infant. Blind and the size of a honeybee, the newborn joey is essentially a fetus, still enclosed in a baglike amnion. The tiny creature bursts out of the amnion and immediately "swims" through its mother's fur to reach the pouch. In just three minutes, it disappears over the lip of the pouch. To find its way, the joey uses its sense of smell and built-in gravity receptors (located in the middle ear)--the only two senses that are functional at this point."

A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.

All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives...
hmmm, nature has its own style of accomplishing its goals in different ways huh!

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
seems like nature has given its own auto-pilot!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
"Ostrich's are not known for their intellect, and their eyes are not that large either!"

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
got the joke in shrek 2?
" Knight: Yep, that's catnip.
Puss-in-Boots: That’s, um... not mine..."

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
oh, poor indians who just have less elephants to poach for ivory...
hope veerappan did not feel abt God for doing this to him!

Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avocados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.

The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.

The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very cold night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.

The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
really ???