Pet Fact – Week 30

By msp_admin | Published: September 16, 2013

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.