Animals have always been man’s best friend and the more we learn about them the more we are surprised at their intelligence and faithfulness. Animals have various skills and attributes that have been inspiring humans for a better life.
Many people are having strange pets and some people might keep snakes, lizards and tigers as their pets. Eventually it’s all about the love that binds a pet to their owners. Apart from pets the jungles, ocean and air also has a huge variety of animals that have made this world beautiful and who are also an important part of the ecosystem and food chains.
1. How Poaching Is Threatening To Wipe Out Lions, Elephants And Rhinos In Africa
Out of a survey conducted on 70,294 animals almost 30% of them fall in the category of threatened animals. Rhinos, elephants and lions are most threatened species at the moment. ESA has 2 categories one is endangered and the other one is threatened. Source
2. Amazing Animal Hearts
This infographic provides information on heart beat of various animals. Elephants heart beats 30 times for one minute. Source
3. How Animals See The World
The colours seen by dogs and cats are quite dull as compare to humans and some of them are even colour blind. In the night time the sensitivity of the animals are increased to many folds. Source
4. ABC’s Of Dinosaurs
There are 26 types of dinosaurs that have been discovered on the earth by the researchers and scientists. Apatosaurus lived in Jurassic period and its height was 75 feet and weighed 25 tons. Source
5.The History Of Crufts
For over 120 years the dog owners have been fighting for the biggest dog show on earth that has become a platform to show case the capabilities of their dogs. Charles Cruft was the founder of Crufts who worked as a manager in a company manufacturing biscuits for the dogs. In the year 1891 the first dog show was conducted on his name where he designed the logo himself and almost 36 breeds of the dogs participated in that show. Source
6. Jellyfish
Just after the 3 minutes a person is stung by the deadly box jelly fish, he/she may die. Jelly fishes are made up of 95% of water and in the Monterey bay the total 33% weight of life is from gelatinous animals. A single jellyfish could release almost 45,000 eggs daily. Jelly fish are captives of the current and they travel wherever the waves might take them. Jelly fish are older than mud and almost 500 million year old jelly fish fossil has been found. Source
7. Usain Bolt Vs. Animal Kingdom
Usain bolt is lightening fast and holds the world record for 100m and 200m. Average speed of a human is 22Km/ per hour and their life expectancy is 80 years where as the speed of a squirrel is 19km/hour and their life expectancy is 3 years. The average speed of Usian Bolt is 36.7 Km/hour and the average speed of an elephant is 40Km/ hour. Source
8. Fun Facts About Man’s Best Friend
62% of Americans have a pet at home and as a country America loves pet. 45% of dogs sleep in their owner’s bed in America. The average dog is as intelligent as a 2 year old child. The sense of smell in dogs is 10,000 times higher than the humans. Dog form their tongue into a cup and then drink the water.
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9. Giving Pit Bulls A Second Chance
5% of all the dogs in United States are declared as pit bulls and 40% of all the dogs in animal shelters are classified as bully breeds. 86.8% of pit bulls have crossed state temperament test. Source
10. Shark Attacks
The great white shark may have 3000 teeth in their mouth and just one curious bite could bleed someone to death. Every year almost 70-100 shark attacks are estimated all over the world out of which 5-15 could turn to be fatal. Source
11. Best And Worst Pets For Apartment Living
According to a survey owning a pet can improve once social life and in US almost 63% of the owners have a household pet. In last one year the house hold pet ownership has increased to 2.1%. Source
12. The Love Story Of A Foster Parent And Her Pet
Julie was a 29 year old exec working in a cheese company and Charlie was a cheese-loving dog stuck in a shelter. Julie saw Charlie on Facebook and fosters him with the help of foster home. Source
13. Do My Pets Really Need Vaccination?
Pets these days have their own salon, spa, day care centres, pet homes and hotels. But all these places will allow the pets who are up to date with their vaccination. Pets can be protected from many contagious and deadly diseases with the help of vaccinations. Some of the common diseases in canine that can be protected with vaccination are Rabies, distemper, parvovirus and Lyme disease. Source
14. Horse Training From Birth To Track
Foals are hugged and touched as soon as they are born and foals learn that people are friend with imprint training. Foals are kept under the weaning process at the age of 2 months and into 6 months foals and mothers are separated into different pastures. Source
15. I Didn’t Know Animals Could Do That!
There are some amazing facts about animals that may amuse many of us. In seahorses male sea horse gets pregnant and gives birth to babies. Wolf Papa’s bring food home, nurture pups and guard the entire family. Orang-utans can develop tools to complete new tasks. Source
16. Alaska
In Alaska 50% of the population stays near the anchorage metropolitan area. King salmon is the state fish in Alaska and the state fossil is Woolly Mammoth. Dog Mushing is the state sport in Alaska and the state gem is Jade. Source
17. Why Protect Antarctica’s Ocean
Almost 10,000 species lived in the southern ocean of Antarctica and many of them are not found in any other part of the world. Antarctic still has the largest penguin breeding colony that can deafen any human ears. Source
18. The Most Exotic Bird
The entire world has more than 10,000 bird’s species which are available at different colours, sizes and shapes. There are almost 41 species of birds of paradise which are the native of south East Asia. Most of the species of birds of paradise are quite rare and male in the species are known for their bright feathers including a very long tail feather.
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19. Animals And Their Skeletons
This infographic depicts on animals and their skeletons. Bats has long forearm and finger bones. Source
20. What’s Your Pet Scared Of?
76% of the pets are scared of electronic appliances and 79% of them are terrified with vacuum cleaners. 31% of the pets are freaked out with the hair dryers and some poor pets are even scared off safety alarms. 34% are scared when there are balloons and crackers around. 41% of pets are scared by strangers and thundering.
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