Working Animals

Laika was the world's first space traveller. It went on a Russian satellite called Sputnik 2 on November 3rd, 1957.

German shepherds were the first guide dogs, trained by the government to assist blind war veterans

Rats have an extremely good sense of smell. They can detect diseases such as tuberculosis and bladder cancer if you let them sniff laboratory samples. They can diagnose up to 2000 samples and us humans? Only 20. 

Dog Facts!

Newfoundland dogs can swim like an olympic swimmer..they have webbed feet..just like the duck. yup!

The greyhound has the best eyesight

Great Danes can eat up to 8.5 pounds of food a day. yum!

Chinese crested dogs can get acne! 

Warnings

Run when you see..

A striped skunk doing a handstand...spray time!

A bear stand on its hind legs...meal time!

A Musk ox bows its head...stomp time!

A leopard cough...last sound you're gonna hear!

A chimp stops smiling...tag you're it!

A black rhino starts runningg around....animal bullet train!

A female lion stares at you...lunch time!

A hippo shows you its butt....dung time!

Additonal Random Facts

SHEEP - have a built-in instinctto follw the lead ram. IF a ram jumps over a stick and you take away the stick, every sheep after the ram will jump over the place where the stick was.

DONKEYS - have their eyes set in their heads so that they can see all of their feet at once

Run Like the Wind

1) Cheeta (71 mph)
2) Antelope (57mph)
3) Wildebeest (50 mph)
4) Lion (50 mph)

Random Random

HORSES - breathe only through their nostrils.
COWS -12 or more cows are know as a "flink"
GOATS - have four toes on each hoof but only two touch the ground
SHEEP - can recognize as many as 50 other sheep by sight
PIGS - are very clean. They always poop away from where they live.
MULES - always lift their tails befoore they bray.
HORSES - the underside of a horse's foot is called a "frog"

Top 10 Dog Names

1) Sam
2) Max
3) Lady
4) Bear
5) Buddy
6) Maggie
7) Bailey
8) Jake
9) Molly
10) Saddie

Heaviest Land Mammals (average)

1) African elephants (16,500lbs)
2) Hippo (9900 lbs)
3) White Rhino (8000lbs)
4) Giraffe (4200 lbs)
5) Bison (2200 lbs)

Longest Life Expectancy

1) Box turtle (100)
2) Human
3) African Elephant (40)
4) Bear (25)
5) Horse (20)
6) Gorilla (20)
7) Polar Bear (20)
8) White Rhino (20)
9) Black Bear (18)
10) Lion (15)

Wild Medicine

Chimpanzees get rid of parasites by using the leaves of sunflowers and rolling it around in their month then swallowing it. They don't like the taste of it because they make faces when they eat it but they apparently know the medicinal effects of the leaves.

African Elephants risk their lives to get into caves in Mount Elgon (volcano) to chew the rocks, which contain many minerals. The sodium is essential for their health.

Capuchin Monkeys in Costa Rica uses a type of chilli to clean themselves, which removes all sort of insects and acts as a painkiller to insect bites

Rats can't throw up

Creature Feature- Babies

ZEBRAS- born with brown stripes

PORCUPINES - born with soft quills and harden an hour after birth

CAMELS - born without humps

EMPEROR PENGUINS - born brown

POLAR BEARS - weigh about one pound

GIANT PANDA - born the size of a stick of butter

KANGAROO - born smaller than your finger

FROGS - born with gills

ELEPHANTS - babies suck their trunks like human babies suck their fingers

WORLD RECORDS

The Heaviest Dog- Zorba is an English Mastiff from London who weighed 343 pounds

The tallest dog. Harlequin is a Great Dane who is 42.2 inches and 7 feet tall on his hind legs

Teeny Tiny. Brandy is a Chihuahua who was 6 inches in length.

Miniscule. Sylvia is a Yorkshire Terrier, 2.5 inches tall and merely 4 pounds, with an extremely short life span of 2 years.

Longlivity. Bluey was an Australian dog who lived for 29 years and 5 months.

Creature Feature

Pickiest Eater - The Australian koala eats ONLY eucalyptus leaves. And it sorts through 500 species of eucalyptus to find one of the 36 types that it likes. And i thought i was picky!

Biggest Farter - The regular old farm cow blasts out more than 105 pounds of methane a year!

Fastest Runner - The cheetah reaches a top speed of 70 miles an hour!

Slowest Mover - The three toed sloth of South America has a land speed of 6-8 feet a minute

Biggest Sleepyhead - The koala sleeps for 22 hours a day. The sloth sleeps for 20 hours.

Smallest Mammal - The Kitti's hog-nosed bat weighs 0.07 ounces (like a peanut)