Unusual Animal Facts: Part Two
In “Unusual Animal Facts Part One” I wrote about all the animals of the natural world…”us” included…and our fascination with them.
I’ll be doing it again in this post.
People like lists…other animals don’t care.
But lists are easy to read and get passed around on the internet more than any other type of article.
I hope you pass this one around…the change it could effect would be worth the click of a mouse…or two.
Unusual Animal Facts #1:
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Humans are the only animals who cry tears or blush.
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened”. Anatole France
Unusual Animal Facts #2:
Captive elephants have been known to unscrew bolts to dismantle their cages.
One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated, I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by [people] from the cruelty of [human kind] ” Mahatma Ghandi
Unusual Animal Facts #3:
The Amazon ‘Jesus Christ lizard’ can run across water.
Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year. He taught himself to read and write.
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” Abraham Lincoln
Unusual Animal Facts #4:
Polar Bears are left handed.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty”. Albert Einstein
Unusual Animal Facts #5:
A zebra is white with black stripes.
The eye muscles are the most active muscles in the whole body and are composed of 2 million working parts.
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight”. Albert Schweitzer
Unusual Animal Facts #6:
Hearing a laugh stimulates the brain region associated with facial movements and, so, will cause you to laugh.
A flea can jump 350 times its body length. It’s equivalent to a human jumping the length of a football field.
“The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen”. Alice Walker
Unusual Animal Facts #7:
Pigs are the only animal that will voluntarily drink hard liquor.
Scientists say the higher your I.Q. the more you dream.
“Lots of people talk to animals…. Not very many listen, though…. That’s the problem” Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Unusual Animal Facts #8:
Butterflies taste with their feet.
At the end of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life”, an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
“I don’t believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.” Gary Larson
Unusual Animal Facts #9:
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me”. Mark Twain
Unusual Animal Facts #10:
Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
There are more people alive today than have ever died.
“If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth”. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
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Thank you!! Very beautiful and I love CHief Seattle’s quote though I wish Daughters of the earth were included….I realize couldn’ta wouldn’ta happened at the time it was written but…just sayin!!
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