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20 Interesting Facts about Pandas

Nitin Sharma — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 21:37:20 +0000

Here is a list of 10 interesting facts about Giant Pandas which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there are a lot of fun and interesting facts about the big, fat and adorable considered pandas that you weren’t aware of until now.

Amazing Giant Panda Facts:

1. A giant panda cub weighs around 150 grams only while a fully grown male can weigh up to 150kg.
2. Pandas are the most expensive animals to be kept in zoos or captivity. A panda costs 5 times more than the next most expensive animal, an elephant.
3. A giant panda eats as much as 10kg of bamboo per day.
4. Pandas are actually bears.
5. Usually,pandas spend half of their day eating, and the other half sleeping.
6. All pandas around the world are on loan from China.
7. A group of pandas is called an “embarrassment”.
8. Beneath its outer fur, the skin of a giant panda is white where the fur is black and pink where the fur is white .
9. Giant pandas are excellent tree climbers.
  Photo by orythys on Pixabay.
10. Giant pandas are omnivorous, they eat both bamboo as well as small animals and fishes.
11. Unlike most other bears, pandas don’t hibernate.
12. The natural life span of a giant panda is about 30 years.
13. In the wild, the lifespan of giant pandas is around 20 years.
14. One of the reasons the World Wide Fund (WWF) chose the Panda as their logo was to save printing costs.
15. Giant pandas possess a highly developed sense of smell that is used by the males to avoid each other and to find females for mating during the spring .
16. A panda’s throat has a special lining of mucus to protect it from bamboo splinters.
17. On the illegal trade market, a panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 .
18. Female giant pandas are only fertile once for two to three days a year (during Spring Season).
19. Giant pandas have 6 digits on their paws, 5 fingers and 1 pseudo-thumb which help them holding and eating the bamboo more easily .
20. Giant pandas have 42 teeth, and like humans, they also have 2 set of teeth during their lifetime.

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20 Interesting Facts About Cats

Nitin Sharma — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 06:00:16 +0000

Cats are one of the most loved pets all around the world. Known for their unique and distant behaviour, they are the perfect companions for many. Here are the top 20 interesting facts about cats which you probably didn’t know.

Interesting Cat Facts:

Cats have brilliant night vision enabling them to see objects in 6 times dimmer light than humans.
On average cats spend 2/3rd of their day sleeping.
Cat kidneys are so efficient they are able to rehydrate by drinking seawater.
Cats can’t taste sweet things.
Cats can fit into any opening of the size of their head because they don’t have a collarbone.
Cats can’t chew large chunks of food because their jaws are unable to move sideways.
Cats can’t eat large chunks of food since their jaws can’t move sideways.
In China, more than 4 million cats are eaten every year.
The ‘Cat Flap’ in doors was invented by Isaac Newton.
Cats make around 100 different noises, while dogs only make 10.
Kittens. Photo by Jan Mallander on Pixabay.
Black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
A cat called “Dusty” from Texas, USA produced 420 kittens during her breeding life, a world record.
Just like each human being has a unique fingerprint, each cat has a unique nose print.
According to a research, owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.
Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of their cats.
There are more than 500 million domestic cats around the globe, from around 40 known species.
In Ancient Egypt, killing a cat, even by accident, resulted in a death penalty.
Cats can get sick or die from eating chocolate.
Cats can attain a maximum speed of about 50 km/h over a short distance.
A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, beating 110-140 times a minute.

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Interesting Animal Facts

Nitin Sharma — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:19:50 +0000

Here is a list of all the interesting animal facts which you didn’t know. These facts will amaze you, and you will find that there is a lot of stuff related to different animals which is very interesting.

Interesting Facts About Animals:

Penguins can convert salt water into freshwater.
Fishes were there even before the dinosaurs.
Goldfish lose their colour if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water.
Octopus have 3 hearts.
Kangaroos have 3 vaginas.
For every human, there are 200 million insects.
Dogs can make approximately 100 different facial expressions.
The head of a jellyfish is called the ‘Bell’.
The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.
Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
Hippopotamuses are born underwater.
Female lions complete 90% of the hunting in their herd.
Flies always launch backwards for a quick getaway.
Birds need gravity to Swallow.
The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
Frogs can swallow with their eyes open.
The stomach acids found in a snake’s stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
A lobster’s blood is colourless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
It’s physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
Bulls can run faster uphill than down.
Until they are about a year old, baby blue whales gain an incredible weight of 91 Kg each day.
A cat’s urine glows under a blacklight.
duck eggs are the largest eggs in the world.
If you were to shave a tiger’s fur, its skins would still have stripes.
Elephant’s tusks are the longest teeth in the world.
A camel’s hump doesn’t store water at all, it stores fat.
Sharks lose teeth each week.
The sloth is the world’s slowest mammal, so lazy that algae grow on its furry coat.
The world’s smallest cockroach is only 3 mm long.
Giraffes often sleep for only 20 minutes in any 24 hours. They may sleep up to 2 hours (in spurts – not all at once), but this is rare.
Koalas sleep an average of 22 hours a day (and your mother thought you slept a lot).
The low-frequency call of the humpback whale is the loudest noise made by a living creature.
At 15 inches, the eyes of giant squids are the largest on the planet.
Seahorse can see in 2 different directions at the same time.
Polar Bears can run at 25 miles an hour and jump over 6 feet in the air.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
A tiger’s tail can be up to one-third of its total body length.
Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth.
Tigers move both legs on the same side of the body simultaneously when they walk.
A duck`s quack doesn`t echo. No one knows why.
Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.
The world’s smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.
The grey whale migrates 12,500 miles from the Arctic to Mexico and back every year.
Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk.
The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4-foot tall child inside.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Lobsters and Jellyfish are biologically immortal, they can live forever.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and prey.
The hippopotamus kill more humans annually than lions, crocodiles, or snakes.
The cuddly animal koala bear, as it is often called, is not a bear at all, it’s a marsupial! It sleeps for up to 18 hours a day.
Elephants use their trunks to help them stay cool. First, they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. They often follow that with a sprinkling of dust or mud to create a protective sunscreen of dirt on their skin.
All tigers have similar markings on their forehead, which resembles the Chinese symbol Wang, meaning king.
Over the course of her life, a female tiger will give birth to an approximately equal number of male and female cubs.
A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
A hummingbird’s heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute.
Reindeer’s hairs are hollow inside like a tube.
Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.
The smallest dog is the Chihuahua.
Keeping cats can increase the chances of mental illness and cause suicidal behaviour in women.
In 2005, a sheep in turkey committed suicide by jumping off a cliff and 1500 sheep followed.
Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
African elephants only have 4 teeth.
Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper.
The mouth of a jellyfish is also its anus.
To take care of their herds, powerful male dolphins occasionally rape weaker males.
Giraffes can’t yawn.
A snail can sleep continuously for 3 years.
Hamsters are colour blind.

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