cows facts

·      A cow can climb up the stairs, but cannot climb down. This is because her knees cannot bend properly.


·          A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.



·      A cow usually spends 6-7 hours in day eating cud and around 8 hours on chewing it.





·       Almost all the cows chew at least 50 times per minute.



·    Cows can drink up to 35 gallons of water a day.


·       Cows do not bite grass; rather they curl their tongue around it.


·      An average cow has more than 40,000 jaw movements in a day.


·  Cows have almost total 360-degree panoramic vision.


·   Cows have an acute sense of smell and can smell something up to 6 miles away.


·  Cows have a single stomach, but four digestive compartments.



· A cow named Cow No. 289 holds the record for the highest lifetime yield of milk for a single cow, at 465,224 lbs.



·        You can guess the age of a cow that has horns by counting the number of rings on the horns.

Special edition of animals

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS

* A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.

* A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or cat.

* A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

         

   
*A rat can last longer without water than camel can.

* A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just 1 hr.

* A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

* A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

* Gastric frog, native to Australia,is known to give birth to its young one through the mouth.

*Whale shark measures 18 metre.It is the world's biggest fish.

*A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

*If gold fish is left in a dark room for a long time, it turns white.

*This is a mind-boggling fact – for 'each' of the 600 million people there is about 200 million insects crawling, flying...

*The largest snakes in the world, anacondas can grow to 550 pounds (227 kilograms)