Facts about Animals

1. A type of "immortal" jellyfish is capable of cheating death indefinitely.

2. Octopuses have three hearts .

3. Butterflies can taste with their feet .

4. Cats and horses are highly susceptibleto black widow venom, but dogs are relatively resistant. Sheep and rabbits are apparently immune.

5. Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharksper year.

6. Wild dolphins call each other by name .

7. Young goats pick up accents from each other.

8. Humpback whale songs spread like "cultural ripples from one population to another."

9. Tardigrades are extremely durable microscopic animals that exist all over Earth. They can survive any of the following: 300 degrees Fahrenheit (149 Celsius), -458 degrees F (-272 C), the vacuum of space, pressure six times stronger than the ocean floor and more than a decade without food.

10. Horses use facial expressions to communicate with each other.

11. Elephants have a specific alarm call that means "human."

12. Squirrels can't burp or vomit .

13. Less time separates the existence of humans and the tyrannosaurus rex than the T-rex and the stegosaurus.

14. There's a place on Earth where seagulls prey on right whales .

15. Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes .

16. Animals with smaller bodies and faster metabolism see in slow motion .

17. Dogs' sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans', but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.

18. The extinct colossus penguin stood as tall as LeBron James.

19. Male gentoo and Adelie penguins " propose " to females by giving them a pebble.

20. Azara's owl monkeys are more monogamous than humans.