­amazing facts on animals

• A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it’s own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. Wow! What an appetite!

• Apart from human’s even chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.

• A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!

• While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.

• A probable identity crisis we have here! Though named polecat, this creature is not a cat but a nocturnal weasel-species in Europe.

• Is a zebra black with white stripes, or white with black stripes? Any guesses? Well, it’s white with black stripes.

• Talk about noise pollution in the jungles! A lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard upto a distance of five miles.

• Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping(তীক্ষ্ম কণ্ঠে চিৎকার) dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard upto a mile away.

• The tusks(হাতির দাঁত) of elephants grow through their life. The tusks weigh over 200 pounds.

• Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.

• The male and female African elephants have tusks.

• The largest ever lobster to be found weighed 19 kg. It was found in 1934.

• The largest recorded jellyfish measured 2.3 m across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m (120 feet) in length.

• The largest giant squid(শামুক) ever found weighed 4 tons. It was traced in the in the North Atlantic in the year 1878.

Sources: http://www.factsaboutanimals.net/amazing-animal-facts.htm