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THE ANIMAL
WORLD
 Alligators and old people can hear
notes only upto 4,000 vibrations a second
- Cattle branding was practised 4,000
years ago. Old tomb paintings show Egyptians branding their fat,
spotted cattle
- Elephants, lions and camels roamed in
Alaska 12,000 years ago
- The hippopotamus gives birth under
water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young
hippos do come up periodically for air.
- The horse was originally a small
animal, incapable of carrying a rider for long periods. When the
larger domesticated horse bred by nomadic tribes for warfare first
appeared in the Middle East and Europe, people were scared of the
animal.
- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can
reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to
exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago.
- In ancient times, the Egyptians
trained baboons to wait on tables.
- The grizzly bear can run as fast as
the average horse.
- The female lion does more than 90% of
the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest,
- At birth, a panda is smaller than a
mouse and weighs about four ounces
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