Saturday 30 March 2013

[www.keralites.net] Did You Know ? Animals .... A dog can hear ...

Dogs
* A dog can hear sounds that are 100 times fainter than the faintest sounds that a person ca= hear.

* The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.
* The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds=and measured 8 feet and 3 in. from nose to tail.

* A 7-year study, which concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths wer= caused by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.

* Every known dog except the chow has a pink tongue - the chow's tongue is jet black.
* German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

* The expression "three dog night" originated with the Eskimos and means a very co=d night - so cold that you have to bed down with three dogs to keep warm.

* The first seeing-eye dog was presented to a blind person on April 25, 1938.
* There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

* Smartest dogs: 1) border collie; 2)poodle; 3)golden retrieve.
* Dumbest dog: Afghan.

* Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft=in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials.



Domesticated
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.


Elephants
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.=/p>

Extinction
Every 10 minutes, another plant or animal life form becomes extinct.


Falcons
The fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speeds in excess of 200 miles per=20 hour.


Fish
* More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North Ame=ica combined.

* The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through th= air.

Flamingo

A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.

Frogs

* A single poison arrow frog contains enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
* Some frogs can pull their eyes into their throat and help push food down!

Goldfish
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


Gorillas
Gorillas beat their chests when they get nervous.


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