The following examples of extreme old age have been chosen from the
reliable records of zoos and aquariums all over the world.
MAMMALS YEARS
Elephant 69
Horse 50
Hippopotamus 49
Chimpanzee 40
Grizzly Bear 32
Bison 30
Lion 30
Tiger 25
Elk 22
Mountain Lion 20
Beaver 19
Wolf 16
Squirrel 16
Chipmunk 12
Cottontail 10
House Mouse 4
BIRDS YEARS
Turkey Buzzard 118
Swan 102
Parrot 80
Great Horned Owl 68
Eagle 55
English Sparrow 23
Canary 22
Humming Bird 8
REPTILES YEARS
Giant Tortoise 152
Box Turtle 123
Alligator 68
Snapping Turtle 57
Cobra 28
Cottonmouth 21
AMPHIBIANS YEARS
Giant Salamander 55
Toad 36
Bullfrog 30
Mud Puppy 23
Green Frog 10
Newt 7
FISH YEARS
Catfish 60
Eel 55
Carp 47
Mosquitofish 2
INSECTS YEARS
Cicada 17
Ant (queen) 15
Longest and shortest life spans
The giant tortoise lives the longest, about 177 years in captivity, and the gastrotrich (a minute aquatic animal) lives the shortest — three days.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Facts About Ants
When it comes to the body structures ants are one of a kind. They typically grow anywhere from 2 to 7 millimeters long, with an exception of the carpenter ant. A carpenter ant get grow anywhere from 2 centimeters all the way up to an inch in length. Carpenter ants are said to be the largest species of ants in the United States. Ants come in a variety of colors, which include, brown, red, yellow, green, blue, and even purple. The ant is also so strong that they can lift up to 20 times their own body weight.
Many think that ants only use their antennas for touch, as they do use them for feeling they also use them for smelling. When an ant eats their food, it goes to one of two stomachs. They have a stomach for storing their own food and then another for storing food for other ants in their colony. Ants don't, however, eat food like we do because they are unable to swallow solids. Instead they squeeze the juice from their food, whether it is a seed, plant, or another insect.
You might remember at times seeing an ant with wings or at least an insect that looked like an ant with wings. Male and female ants are both born with large wings. When the ant matures, these wings are used so that the ant can fly into the air to mate. Once they are done mating, the male ants' wings fall off and he will typically die. The female, however, will use her wings to fly off and start her own new colony somewhere else. After she has reached her destination, her wings will fall off.
Western harvester ants are the typical species of ants that you will find if you were to purchase an ant farm. The reason for this is because they are the best type of ant for tunneling, building, and being watched under observation. The western harvester ant will also live about 2-6 months long, longer than another species normally would.
Ants are very interesting and fun to learn about for every one of all ages, with so many interesting facts about ants, you will never be bored.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Facts of Spider in General
Spiders are invertebrates, which means they don't have backbones. These small creatures help plants reproduce by pollinating them. They also help recycle dead trees and animals back into the earth. They are also a vital source of food for birds, fish, and small mammals. Without invertebrates, like spiders and insects, many other living things would not survive.
Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs.
Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax.
Spiders have silk spinning glands called spinnerets, at the tip of their abdomen.
Not all spiders spin webs. Spiders belong to the Arachnid family.
There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
Most spiders have either six or eight eyes.
Most spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.
Opiliones are commonly called shepherd spiders, harvest spiders or harvestmen.
The term harvestmen or harvest spiders was a result of them being seen only during harvesting time. They are also referred to as daddy long legs but should not be confused with similarly named spiders, the Pholcidae.
Opiliones are not spiders and have no spinning organs, fangs or venom glands and are harmless to man.
Spider bites can be quite painful, and a select few can be fatal.
Fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia. It is one of the most common fears among humans.
Tarantulas shed their furry skin as they grow, leaving behind what looks just like another tarantula.
Spiders eat many types of harmful insects, helping to keep your garden free of pests.
Spiders are creatures that have 8 legs, have no wings or antennae. They have 2 distinct body parts called the thorax or head and the abdomen. Spiders have an exoskeleton, meaning that their skeleton is on the outside.
Spiders have as many as 8 eyes, but some spiders have only 6 eyes and several spiders have fewer or even none. All spiders have fangs through which venom is ejected. The tip of the abdomen has silk spinning glands called spinnerets by which a spider can spin a web. However, not all spiders spin webs.
Most spiders are very nearsighted. To make up for this, they use the hair on their body to feel their way around and to sense when other animals are near.
Webs get dirty and torn, so lots of spiders make a new one every day. They don't waste the old one, though--they roll it up into a ball and eat it!
Young spiders resemble adults. Only their size and coloration differ.
Male spiders are usually smaller than female spiders.
Spiders are not insects. Insects have three body parts and six legs.
Spiders have eight legs and two body parts, the abdomen and the thorax.
Spiders have silk spinning glands called spinnerets, at the tip of their abdomen.
Not all spiders spin webs. Spiders belong to the Arachnid family.
There are more than 30,000 species of spiders.
Spiders are oviparous, which means their babies come from eggs.
Most spiders have either six or eight eyes.
Most spiders have fangs, through which venom is ejected.
Opiliones are commonly called shepherd spiders, harvest spiders or harvestmen.
The term harvestmen or harvest spiders was a result of them being seen only during harvesting time. They are also referred to as daddy long legs but should not be confused with similarly named spiders, the Pholcidae.
Opiliones are not spiders and have no spinning organs, fangs or venom glands and are harmless to man.
Spider bites can be quite painful, and a select few can be fatal.
Fear of spiders is called Arachnophobia. It is one of the most common fears among humans.
Tarantulas shed their furry skin as they grow, leaving behind what looks just like another tarantula.
Spiders eat many types of harmful insects, helping to keep your garden free of pests.
Spiders are creatures that have 8 legs, have no wings or antennae. They have 2 distinct body parts called the thorax or head and the abdomen. Spiders have an exoskeleton, meaning that their skeleton is on the outside.
Spiders have as many as 8 eyes, but some spiders have only 6 eyes and several spiders have fewer or even none. All spiders have fangs through which venom is ejected. The tip of the abdomen has silk spinning glands called spinnerets by which a spider can spin a web. However, not all spiders spin webs.
Most spiders are very nearsighted. To make up for this, they use the hair on their body to feel their way around and to sense when other animals are near.
Webs get dirty and torn, so lots of spiders make a new one every day. They don't waste the old one, though--they roll it up into a ball and eat it!
Young spiders resemble adults. Only their size and coloration differ.
Male spiders are usually smaller than female spiders.
Amazing Facts About Animal Kingdom
Is a world population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals.
•There are more than a million animal species.
•There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects.
•The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%.
•The most numerous bird species is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.
•Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.•African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
•There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
•A house fly lives only 14 days.
•A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
•The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino. The term “Big Five” was coined by hunters who referred to the difficulty in hunting these wild animals because of their ferocity when cornered.
•The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
•The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
•An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h).
•An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
•The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means “tiny dog in the sky.”
•Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
•75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
•The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
•Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
•Pork is the world’s most widely-eaten meat.
•In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
•Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren’t any at that time.
•The coyote is a member of the dog family and its scientific name, “canis latrans” means barking dog.
•A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
•A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle – a group of geese in the air is a skein. More animal collective nouns
•The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
•It is impossible to out-swim a shark – sharks reach speeds of 44 mph (70 km/h). Humans can run about 21 mph (35 km/h).
•The sailfish is the fastest swimmer, reaching 68 mph (109 km/h), although a black marlin has been clocked at 80 mph (128 km/h).
•The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
•Dolphins can reach 37 mph (60 km/h).
•Of the 650 types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.
•The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
•The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
•A blue whale weighs as much as 40 rhinos.
•The scales of a crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
•A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
•A snail has two pairs of tentacles on its head. One pair is longer than the other and houses the eyes. The shorter pair is used for smelling and feeling its way around.
•The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 42 lb (19 kg), caught in 1934.
•The largest jellyfish ever caught measured 7′6″ (2,3 m) across the bell with a tentacle of 120 ft (36 m) long.
•The largest giant squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4 tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m (35 ft) long.
•The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal: its eyes measure 16 inches (40 cm) in diameter.
•Domestic cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
•Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
•Sharks and rays also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been used as sandpaper.
•Animals also are either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed – and so is Kermit the Frog.
•There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
•There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
•Some bird species, usually flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper and lower lids to blink.
•Fish and insects do not have eyelids – their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
•Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other “normal” fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up.
•Measured in straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 106 mph (170 km/h). Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 94 mph (150 km/h).
•Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
•There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
•New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
•There are more than a million animal species.
•There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million insects.
•The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the 9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%.
•The most numerous bird species is the red-billed quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.
•Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.•African elephants only have four teeth to chew their food with.
•There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
•A house fly lives only 14 days.
•A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.
•The Big Five is a group of animals of Africa: cape buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino. The term “Big Five” was coined by hunters who referred to the difficulty in hunting these wild animals because of their ferocity when cornered.
•The oldest breed of dog is the Saluki.
•The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
•An ostrich can run up to 43mph (70 km/h).
•An annoyed camel will spit at a person.
•The world’s smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means “tiny dog in the sky.”
•Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
•75% of wild birds die before they are 6 months old.
•The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
•Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
•Pork is the world’s most widely-eaten meat.
•In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
•Dinosaurs did not eat grass: there weren’t any at that time.
•The coyote is a member of the dog family and its scientific name, “canis latrans” means barking dog.
•A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
•A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle – a group of geese in the air is a skein. More animal collective nouns
•The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
•It is impossible to out-swim a shark – sharks reach speeds of 44 mph (70 km/h). Humans can run about 21 mph (35 km/h).
•The sailfish is the fastest swimmer, reaching 68 mph (109 km/h), although a black marlin has been clocked at 80 mph (128 km/h).
•The slowest fish is the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph (0.016 km/h).
•Dolphins can reach 37 mph (60 km/h).
•Of the 650 types of leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.
•The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
•The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.
•A blue whale weighs as much as 40 rhinos.
•The scales of a crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails are made of.
•A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
•A snail has two pairs of tentacles on its head. One pair is longer than the other and houses the eyes. The shorter pair is used for smelling and feeling its way around.
•The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 42 lb (19 kg), caught in 1934.
•The largest jellyfish ever caught measured 7′6″ (2,3 m) across the bell with a tentacle of 120 ft (36 m) long.
•The largest giant squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4 tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m (35 ft) long.
•The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal: its eyes measure 16 inches (40 cm) in diameter.
•Domestic cats purr at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
•Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
•Sharks and rays also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been used as sandpaper.
•Animals also are either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed – and so is Kermit the Frog.
•There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
•There are about 54 million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
•Some bird species, usually flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper and lower lids to blink.
•Fish and insects do not have eyelids – their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
•Flatfish (halibut, flounder, turbot, and sole) hatch like any other “normal” fish. As they grow, they turn sideways and one eye moves around so they have two eyes on the side that faces up.
•Measured in straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 106 mph (170 km/h). Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 94 mph (150 km/h).
•Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
•There are more than 150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
•New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
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