User Guide

Animal Facts
Horse
• People have depended on horses for a long time. Horses have helped with farming
and transportation for over 4,000 years.
• When a horse reaches five years of age, it ocially becomes a “horse.” Before that
age, young males are called “colts” and females are referred to as “fillies.”
• Wild horses roam in groups of 3 to 20. When colts turn two years old, they leave the
group to roam with other colts.
• Horses have monocular vision—each of their eyes sees a dierent image. The only
time a horse sees one image is when it looks down at its nose.
Pig
• Pigs are very intelligent. They can learn tricks faster than dogs and will respond to a
given name after a few weeks. Have you ever considered a pig for a pet?
• Baby piglets eat so much that they double their weight in their first week of life!
• Although they don’t seem very athletic, pigs are very skilled swimmers. Because they lack
sweat glands, pigs love to go into water (or mud) to cool o.
• Pigs have only four toes on each foot. In addition, pigs only walk on the two middle toes,
which is why they waddle when they walk.
Cow
• A cow can produce over 200,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime!
• A cow’s stomach has four compartments: the rumen; the reticulum, where food is
stored; the omasum, which absorbs water; and the abomasum, which helps digest food.
• Cows can walk up stairs but not down stairs because their knees do not bend properly!
• Cows have a normal body temperature of 101.5° Fahrenheit!
Goat
• The pupil in a goat’s eye is rectangular rather than round. For this reason, goats see
well at night.
• Experts believe that goats were one of the first animals to be tamed and herded by
people, nearly 9,000 years ago.
• Most of the 450 million goats in the world are found in the Middle East and Asia.
North America has only 6 to 8 percent of the world’s goat population.
• You may know that baby goats are called kids, but did you know that a group of goats is
called a trip?
• Goats have a very large appetite for fresh and dried grasses, shrubs, bushes, and other
plants. In fact, goats can eat through entire areas of land, causing long-term damage.
Sheep
• During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, nearly 100 years ago, the first lady had sheep
graze on the White House lawn to keep it short.
• A one-year-old sheep is called a hogget and a two-year-old is called a two-tooth.
• Sheep are timid and easily frightened animals. They flock together in large numbers and
run away at a hint of danger.
• There are over 1 billion sheep in the world.
• Male sheep, called rams, have long, curled horns that weigh 30 pounds (13.6 kg).
Rams fight by butting heads repeatedly for hours.
Rooster
• An adult male chicken is a rooster and an adult female is a hen. Roosters are larger
than hens and also have larger combs on their heads.