✤ Human hair, nails and horse hooves are made of the same type of protein.
✤ According to an estimate there are about 60 million horses in the world.
✤ Seahorse fish can move both its eyes separately. She can look to the right with one eye, and to the left with the other at the same time. Apart from this, it can also change its color according to the surrounding environment.
✤ Most types of seahorse fish live together in pairs (male and female). The female seahorse lays her eggs in a pouch inside the male's abdomen. When the chicks are about to emerge from the eggs, the male puts them on top of the sea moss with the help of his tail.
✤ Elephants are right or left handed like humans.
✤ The skin of an elephant is about one inch thick.
✤ Horses are still found in very large herds in the forests of South Africa. A herd consists of one male and several females.
✤ The horses of a herd follow the instructions of one horse as their leader. Horses of one herd do not disturb the life and peace of another herd.
✤ Once upon a time, the ancestors of horses, donkeys, zebras and mules were the same.
✤ Elephants sleep very little during the day. Just 4 hours at most.
✤ Elephant is the only animal that cannot jump and has four knees.
✤ Female elephants live in very large herds which are led by an old female elephant.
✤ The gestation period of African female elephants is 22 months.
✤ Even after having such big ears, the hearing parity of elephant is less.
✤ African elephants have bigger ears than Indian elephants.
✤ You must have always seen that the elephant keeps on moving its ears throughout the day, have you ever wondered why? In fact, the elephant releases the heat of its giant body out through the ears. This work is done by the cells of the ears of the elephant. This is the reason why African elephants have very big ears, because there is a lot of heat there.
✤ The weight of the young African elephant is about 6,160 kg and that of the Indian elephant is up to 5000 kg.
✤ Male elephants leave the herd between 12 and 15 years of age.
✤ Elephants have the largest brain among animals.
✤ An elephant cub often sucks its trunk for comfort.
✤ In the beginning of railways, elephants were used instead of cranes for pushing, lifting and carrying train coaches.
✤ The roar of every elephant is also different like the voice of us humans.
✤ If an elephant gets hurt, then another elephant definitely helps him.
✤ If one elephant of a herd dies, the whole herd celebrates by roaring in a strange way.
✤ In any kind of crisis, the males surround the females from all sides and face the enemy.
✤ The first book written on a horse in history is 'Shalihotra', which was written by the Shalihotra sage long before the Mahabharata period.
✤ The trunk of an elephant is attached to the upper lip and nose.
✤ The teeth of an elephant keep on growing during its life time.
✤ Elephants also use their feet to hear. When elephants walk, a special kind of vibration is created in the ground. With this vibration, elephants know about other elephants.
✤ Sunfish do not have tail like most fish. A female sunfish can lay 300 million eggs in a year. Each egg is only the size of a dot.
✤ Fish are cold-blooded creatures. That is, their internal temperature changes according to the surrounding environment.
✤ More species of fish are found in the Amazon River than in the whole of Europe.
✤ Horse is called Stallion in English and Mare is called Mare.
✤ The teeth of a horse occupy more space in its head than the brain.
✤ Male horses have more teeth than female horses. Males have an average of 40 teeth and females have an average of 36 teeth.