*A chimpaneze can look in the mirror and recognise itself but other monkeys can't!
*A ducks quack doesn't echo.
* You can bring a cow upstairs but not down.
*On average more people are afraid of spiders then they are about dying.
*Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
*An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain
*A crocodile can not stick out its tongue
*Cats have over one hundred vocalsound when a dog only has about ten.
*Polar bears are left handed
*A shrimps head is in it's head
*In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich has buried its head in the sand.
*Horses can not vomit
*Donkeys kill more people than aeroplanes do
*Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months,
two rats could have over a million descendants.
*It is phsically impossible for pigs to look up to the sky.
*A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
*A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
*Turtles can breathe through there bums
*Tigers have striped skin not fur
*The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
*Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian emblem for that reason.
*The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds
*Some lions mate over 50 times a day
*A cat's urine glows under a black light.
*Starfish have no brains
*Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for
pleasure.
* An armadillo can walk under water
* Armadillo's have four babies and are the same sex.
*The official state mammal of Texas is the armadillo
*Most dinosaurs walked on their toes.
*All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago
*Bloodhounds have been used since the 1600's for tracking criminals.
*A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless
*In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets
*Even though a polar bears fur looks white it is actually colourless and is made with hollow tubes. The reason the bear looks white is because the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance.
*A chicken loses its feathers when it becomes stressed.
*If you spray an antiseptic spray on a polar bear, its fur will turn purple.
*The adult electric eel can produce a five hundred volt shock, which is enough to stun a horse.
*A lobster's blood is colorless. When the blood is exposed to oxygen it becomes a bluish color.
*About 1 in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blueAustralia's box jellyfish has toxins more potent than the venom in cobras. A person who is bitten can die within minutes
*Depending on the size, it can take an oyster anywhere from few months to many years to form a pearl.
*Male sea horses are the ones that get impregnated rather than the females. Males have a pouch on their belly that provides incubation for the female’s eggs and they can have up to 1500 babies at one time.
*Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world
*The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles.
*Giant flying foxes, which are a type of bat, that live in Indonesia have wingspans of nearly six feet
*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
*Frog-eating bats identify edible frogs from poisonous ones by listening to the mating calls of male frogs. Frogs counter this by hiding and using short, difficult to locate calls.
*A species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia. These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their body.
*Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time
*A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."
*A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than are found in all of Europe's rivers.
*Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water
*Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers
*In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States.
*Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs.
*Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida.
*Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food.
*The only animal, besides humans that can get leprosy is the Armadillo.
*A cow averages 40,000 jaw movements a day
*A cow has four compartments in its stomach
*Cows can detect odors up to five miles away
*On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year
*An average city dog lives approximately three years longer than an average country dog.
*Border collies are the most intelligent breed of dog.
*An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.
*The elephant is the national animal of Thailand
*A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk
*A hummingbird's heart beats 615 beats in a minute
*A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
*An eagle's nest located in Maryland, USA reportedly weighed about 3,000 pounds.
*In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder.
*In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners.
*In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998.
*Over 10000 birds died from smashing into windows.
*In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
*All of the Peking ducks in the United States are descendents from three ducks and one drake imported to Long Island, New York in 1873.
*A hawk's vision is so good that it can see a mouse from a height of one mile.
*A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
*Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak.
*Male owls weigh less and are smaller than female owls
*Owls swallow their prey hole because they have no teeth. After approximately 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a shape of a football pellet.
*Pound for pound, an eagle's wing is stronger than the wing of an airplane.
The oldest bird on record was Cocky, a cockatoo, who died in the London Zoo at the age of 82.
*The only poisonous birds in the world are the three species of Pitohui. The Hooded Pitohui from Papua New Guinea is the most deadliest out of the three.
*The scarlet tanager, a songbird native to Illinois, can eat as many as 2,100 gypsy-moth caterpillars in one hour
*The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long
*During the high feeding season, it has been estimated that an adult blue whale can eat up to 40 million krill in one day. (Krill are shrimp like creatures)
*The blue whale is the loudest animal on the earth. Its whistle can reach up to 188 decibels.
*When threatened, the horned toad shoots blood from it's eyes.
*Frogs do not need to drink water as they absorb the water through their skin.
*The smallest frog is the "Brazilian baby frog", which is smaller than a dime.
*Wood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen state.
* A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.
*The dromedary camel can drink as much as 100 litres of water in just 10 minutes.
*The world camel population is close to 19 million
*25% of cat owners blow dry the cat's hair after giving it a bath
*A fall of 30 feet can be survived my most cats.
*In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer.
*Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.
*Just like fingerprints, every cats nose pad is different
*Zanzibar is the only place where you will find the Kirk's Red Colobus monkey.
*The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.
*Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two
*An adult lion's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.
*All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on January 1st
*It's not only zebra's fur that is striped, their skin is also striped.
*There are approximately 75,000,000 horses in the world
*There are no two zebras who have stripes that are exactly the same.
*The Koala bear is not really a bear, but is really related to the kangaroo and the wombat.
*Male koalas mark their territory by rubbing their chests on a tree. Male koalas have a dark scent gland in the middle of their chest.
*A penguin swims at a speed of approximately 15 miles per hour
*The deepest underwater penguin dive is 1,772 feet by an Emperor Penguin.
*Before its name was changed, the African Penguin used be called the Jackass Penguin because of its donkey-like braying call.
*On average, pigs live for about 15 years
*There are more pigs than humans in Denmark
*A barnacle has the largest penis of any other animal in relation to its size.
*A chameleon's tongue is as long as its body and head and can shoot out as fast as sixteen feet per second.
*A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.
*A hedgehog's heart beats 190 times a minute on average and drops to only 20 beats per minute during hibernation.
*Adult earwigs can float in water for up to 24 hours
*A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night
*A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair and keratin
*A sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers in a hot air balloon.
*A squirrel cannot carry the rabies virus
*A species of earthworm, "Megascolides australis," in Australia can grow up to fifteen feet in length.
*An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day
*An individual coral animal is called a polyp.
*According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
*During warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink. This substance not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin.
*Hippos can live up to 40 years in the wild
*In one night, an adult hippopotamus eats approximately 150 pounds of grass.
*Every year, 100 million sharks are killed by people
*False Bay, on the southern tip of Africa and close to Cape Town, South Africa, is a breeding ground for great white sharks, which feed off the thousands of seals in the bay. However, it is the only area in the known world in which these sharks are known to breach - they attack the seals by coming up vertically, often leaping clear of the water with their prey in their mouths.
*More people die from eating sharks then from being eaten by them. This is due to a poison in shark meat.
*Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks).
*Sharks can sense a drop of blood from a mile away.
*A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.
*Most snakes have six rows of teeth
*Snake is a delicacy in China
*A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.
* a coral snake when alarmed farts with a popping nose.
*Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake.
*The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults.
*The poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2,200 people.
*The hippo's skin produces an oily red substance that oozes from its pores which helps to keep the skin moist and protects it from getting sunburn and infection.
*The hippo has webbed toes which act like paddles when swimming under water.
*The hippo requiers less food than an animal of similar size because it spends so much time in the water where its weight is supported, therefore it is able to use very little energy
*In order to breathe and observe its surroundings while submerged in water, hippos have eyes and ears on the top of its head
*The hippopotamus has the capability to remain underwater for as long as twenty-five minutes.
*Jackrabbits can reach a speed of fifty miles per hour and can leap as far as twenty feet.
*Male rabbits are called "bucks," females are "does."
*A rabbit's teeth never stops growing. They are kept worn down by gnawing on food.
*A rabbit is not able to vomit
*Squids move through the ocean using a jet of water forced out of the body by a siphon.
*The giant squid is the largest animal without a backboneBetween 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
*Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
*In 1972, a gorilla by the name of "Koko" was taught ASL (American Sign Language) for the deaf. By the year 2000, the gorilla could understand approximately 2,000 English words.
*Gorilla's have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints
*Human birth control pills work on gorillas
*Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.
*Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses
*In 1999, a three headed turtle was discovered by Lin Chi-Fa in his pond in Southern Taiwan
*The butterfly was orginally called the flutterbly
*a butterfly tastes with its feet
*A snail can sleep for three years
*Ants don't sleep
*Ants always fall on the right side when intoxicated
*A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it
starves to death.
*The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its
body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
*The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the
length of a football field.
*In 1999, a three headed turtle was discovered by Lin Chi-Fa in his pond in Southern Taiwan.
*Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them locate dead bodies
*The desert tortoise can live without having to drink any water. It extracts the water it needs from the vegetation it eats.
*The incubation temperature of a sea turtle's nest is a major factor in the determination of the sea turtle's sex. Females are more likely to be produced in warmer temperatures
*The only species of turtle that lives in the open ocean is the sea turtleA snail can crawl across a razor blade without getting injured. This is possible because they excrete a slime that protects them.
*Some snails live on branches in treesSnails eat with a rasping mouth called a "radula," which has thousands of teeth
*Snails have mouths the sizes of pin heads but some have up to 26,500 teeth!
*The fastest running bird is the Ostrich, which has been clocked at 97.5 kilometres per hour.
*The hog-nosed skunk can spray up to fifteen feet with incredible accuracy. Its spray not only stinks but also if it hits the eyes, will blind the skunk's target for up to two days
*There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimetres long when it is born.
*A dragonfly can only live four 24 hours!
* cockroach can change directions up to 25 times in a second.
*A colony of bees have to fly almost fifty-five thousand miles and tap two million flowers to make one pound of honey.
*A house fly's feet are 10 million times more sensitive than a human tongue.
*Although the worker honey bee's brain is only a cubic millimeter, it has the densest neuropile tissue of any animal.
*Certain female species of spiders such as the Australian crab spider, sacrifice their bodies as a food source for their offspring.
*Cricket chirping can tell the temperature outside. Counting how many times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds and then adding 40 to that number will approximately tell you what the temperature is in Fahrenheit.
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* Sharks have to keep swimming to stay alive, even when they are asleep!
*Killer Whales are not whales at all! They are dolphins!
*The Hammerhead shark has a head that is shaped like a hammer!
*The Blue Whale is the longest mammal in the world! It is about 25 metres long!
*Dolphins need to breathe air about every 2 minutes!
*Whales and dolphins are mammals, but sharks are fish!
*The Octopus uses suckers on its arms to hold onto things!
*Roaches wear their skeletons on the outside of their bodies.
* Cockroaches have at least 18 knees.
* Some female cockroaches mate once and are pregnant for the rest of their lives.