600 Amazing Facts About Animals

To figure out your dog’s “true age” in human terms, count the first full year as 15 years, the second full year as 10 years and all the following years as 3 years. In other words, a 4 year old dog would be: 15+10+3+3+=31 years old

When two dogs approach each other, the dog that wags its tail the slowest is in charge.

A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

Camel milk doesn’t curdle.

Vampire bat saliva keeps blood from clotting. Vampire bats do more than just bite their prey: they keep the other animal’s blood from clotting. Vampire bat saliva works as an anticoagulant, keeping the blood flowing freely as they feed.

Horned lizard squirt blood from their eyes. When a horned lizard finds itself in a perilous situation, it can squirt a stream of blood at a predator or into its mouth to get them to scamper off.

The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales and human females.

Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year.

Frogs cannot vomit. If one absolutely has to, then it will vomit its entire stomach.

Kangaroos can’t fart.