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Pet Fact – Week 14

msp_admin — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:53:11 +0000

Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them!

Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing!
Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke!
Strange but true: a giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck as a man.
Here’s one for the fish fans: Goldfish lose their color if kept in dim light. Just like humans, they need sunlight to keep their pigment.
This could come in handy before you pack for summer hols: Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color..
The world’s fastest swimmer is the sail fish, this speedy fish can achieve speeds of 75mph

msp_admin — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:16:33 +0000

Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them!
Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing!
Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke!
Strange but true: a giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck as a man.
Here’s one for the fish fans: Goldfish lose their color if kept in dim light. Just like humans, they need sunlight to keep their pigment.
This could come in handy before you pack for summer hols: Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color..
The world’s fastest swimmer is the sail fish, this speedy fish can achieve speeds of 75mph

msp_admin — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:54:56 +0000

Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region.
All polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 10,000 years ago.
A newborn giant panda weighs less than a cup of tea.
A hammerhead shark can be rendered completely immobile for 15 minutes by turning it over and tickling its tummy.
Squirrels can remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts.
Ants nod to each other as they pass.
Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.

msp_admin — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:17:43 +0000

Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
Horses and cows sleep while standing up!
Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36m in length. Longer than the height of the Tower of London!
Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle. Wowsers
Instead of bones, sharks have a skeleton made from cartilage.
Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.
Bet you thought the rhinoceros horn was made of bone? Wrong! It’s actually composed from compacted hair.

msp_admin — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 10:15:23 +0000

Africa petfact – the hippotomus is considered the most dangerous animal. In Africa it is responsible for more human deaths than Lions, Snakes or Crocodiles
Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, they are capable of differentiating odors in concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can.
The average life span for a dog is around 10 to 14 years.
An anteater is nearly 6 feet long yet it’s mouth is only about an inch wide and it manages to fit in a whopping 42 teeth!
Female dolphins are called cows, males are called bulls and young dolphins are called calves. We can’t work out dolphin/cow connection either!
A group of tigers is known as an ‘ambush’ or ‘streak’.
Kangaross can’t fart! #loweringthetone

msp_admin — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:13:32 +0000

The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!?
The heaviest domestic cat on record isa staggering 21.297 kg
Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not infact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode! t
Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication of dogs could have occurred more than 15,000 years ago
The most popular breed of dog in the world by registered ownership is the Labrador.
The Spitting Spider is too impatient to wait and catch it’s prey in a web, it goes out and spits it’s sticky web when it sees something tasty
Octopuses have no bones and squeeze themselves though spaces as small as the size of their eyeball.

msp_admin — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:16:22 +0000

The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!?
The heaviest domestic cat on record is a staggering 21.297 kg
Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not in fact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode!
Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication of dogs could have occurred more than 15,000 years ago!
The most popular breed of dog in the world by registered ownership is the Labrador.
The Spitting Spider is too impatient to wait and catch it’s prey in a web, it goes out and spits it’s sticky web as soon as it sees something tasty!
Octopuses have no bones and squeeze themselves though spaces as small as the size of their eyeball!

msp_admin — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 13:23:27 +0000

Particularly greedy vultures are able to eat so much that they become too heavy to fly!
Did you know that the very cute Yorkshire Terrier were originally bred to hunt rats in factories!
No two zebras have the same stripes!
The firefly is actually a beetle not a fly!
There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world compared to around 400 million domestic dogs!
Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day!
A group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly!

msp_admin — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:22:25 +0000

The kiwi bird from New Zealand lays eggs up to half its own weight. Ouch
The African mudpuppy, or waterdog, is in fact not a dog at all. It’s a salamander (amphibian) so named for emitting a high-pitched squeaking sound reminiscent of a dog’s bark.
We’re not sure where the nurse shark got it’s name but something even more fascinating about this fish – they like to to take their daily rest in large piles of up to forty sharks!
The feathery flightless ostrich’s muscular legs are powerful enough to kill man and lion alike.
Neil Armstrong wasn’t actually the first guy on the moon, it was actually the rhesus monkey who first made that big step for primate-kind
Imagining this made us giggle – the shaggy, nocturnal sloth bear feeds itself by sucking ants through a gap in its front teeth.
Despite being much feared, the tarantula is actually harmless to humans with a venom weaker than that of a bee’s sting.

msp_admin — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 15:08:29 +0000

All polar bears are left-handed. Or left-pawed should we say!
Fish communicate by rasping their teeth, OR far more weirdly by using their swim bladder to create sounds!
Crocodiles may be pretty fearsome beasts but it’s physically impossible for them to stick out their tongues. Take that crocodiles *sticks out tongue menacingly*
Did you know that dalmatians are the only breed of dog to suffer from gout the poor things!
Before it reaches sexual maturity an Eel is called an elver. Elvers were once a staple in coastal dweller’s diets. Yummy.
The impala can jump 10 feet in the air when threatened. That’s 2 feet more than the men’s high jump world record!
One of the best animal names we think – the Jesus Christ lizard. Named for its miraculous abilities to run over water.