Everyone is attracted to animals and adores them. If not all, but many people do have their favorite animals which they are crazy after! People enjoy having pet animals at their houses and some of the people even consider their pets as vital family members. Animals just don't appear astonishing; they even have features which amaze and attract a big crowd of people. Besides the usual eyes, tails, feet and so forth, some of the animals have other distinguished features like seeing in the dark, flying in the air, and swimming. Every animal, whether bird or insect, is unique in its own manner and plays its own vital role in providing beauty to the world. Following are some of the unique facts about various animals which will make you amazed along with adding up to your knowledge.

= An elephant's trunk has 40, 000 muscles.

= Insects make up about 80% of the Earth's weight.

= There are about 9500 known species of ant. Ants communicate by touching each other with their antennae.

= Largest marine mammal is blue whale and land mammal is African bush elephant.

= The world's fastest fish is sailfish and smallest fish is dwarf goby.

= A Galapagos tortoise lives an average of 200+ years while a mosquito lives an average of 3-4 weeks.

= Sharks do not have any bones.

= There are about 30-70 million sharks killed by humans every year.

= Jellyfish, snails, earthworms, lobsters, spiders, butterflies and starfish are some of the animals who do not have backbones (called invertebrates).

= A dog's sense of hearing is 44 times stronger than humans.

= The world's fastest marine animal is blue whale and land animal is cheetah.

= The world's smallest mammal is bumblebee bat.

= Sharks have been ruling the seas for over 400 million years.

= The top ten pet names according to 2004 are Max, Maggie, Buddy, Bailey, Jake, Sam, Molly, Nicky, Coco and Sadie.

I hope that you enjoyed reading the above facts as much as I liked collecting them and telling to all of you here!