Wacky Wednesday: 15 Animal Facts You Never Knew Before!
As is Wednesday tradition, BBIMI is giving you a glimpse at 15 fun and crazy animal related facts you probably did not know before you read this blog post. The world is full of useless, yet entertaining AND factual information and we would be crazy or wacky ourselves not to shed some light on this subject. There’s just two more days until the weekend, so enjoy this Humpday treat courtesy of BB Insurance Marketing. Check them out!
– In some countries, it is illegal to operate on octopuses without anesthesia, due to their intelligence.
– A group of barracudas is called a battery.
– Rats like to engage in tickle fights with each other.
– A group of flies is called a business.
– Pandas are biologically carnivorous and derive little nutrition from bamboo, which is why they must eat so much of it.
– Fleas can jump up to 200 times their height. This is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
– Tigers not only have stripes on their fur, they also have them on their skin. No two tigers ever have the same stripes.
– Workers in an ant colony only live for about 45-60 days, but a colony’s queen can live up to 20 years.
– The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it is enough to kill a person 150 times over.
– The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they can be confused at a crime scene.
– A cricket can’t hear its own chirping.
– The life of a housefly is only 14 days.
– There are more insects in 10 square feet of the rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
– A small child could swim through the veins of a blue whale.
– A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.