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The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple of years to
breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight. An albatross can sleep while it
flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The last animal in the dictionary is the Zyzzyva, a tropical weevil.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so
that they could be confused at a crime scene.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks.
Rabbits love licorice.
To figure out your "true dog's age" in human terms, count the first full year as 15 years, the second
full year as 10 yeas and all the following years as 3 years. In other words, a 5 year old dog would
be: 15+10+3+3+3=34 years old.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
When two dogs approach each other, the dog which wags its tail very slowly is in charge
The leech has 32 brains
The praying mantis only has one ear.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
Cat's can't taste sweets.
The smallest dog in history was a tiny Yorkie from Blackburn, England. At two years of age and fully
grown he was only 2.5 inches tall by 3.75 inches long and weighed only 4 ounces.
White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf.
About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds
and even small monkeys.
All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no
bone.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Cows do not have upper front teeth.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
By swallowing water, the Pufferfish becomes too big for other fish to swallow.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
The stuff (allergens) that people are allergic to in cats is a protein in cat saliva. When the cat
grooms and the saliva dries it can become airborn. This protein is 1/3 the weight of ordinary
housedust, so it can travel farther. You can find this allergen where cats have never been.
Horseshoe crabs have existed in essentially the same form for the past 135 million years. Their
blood provides a valuable test for the toxins that cause septic shock, which previously led to half of
all hospital-acquired infections and one-fifth of all hospital deaths.
A group of herring is called a seige. A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you eat bananas.
If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide
by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
Cat's urine glows under a black light.
Infant beavers are called kittens
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Ants don't sleep
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around
car windows.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs
Baby seals are called pups, but they're also referred to as "weaners."
A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes.
All porcupines float in water.
Every night, wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles (jaws) into position, stretch
out at right angles to the stem and with legs dangling, fall asleep.
A scallop has 35 blue eyes.
Boxers are named for their playful habit of using their front paws in frolic.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Yak milk is pink in color.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
French poodles did not originate in France. Poodles were originally used as hunting dogs in Europe.
The dogs thick coats were a hindrance in water and thick brush, so hunters sheared the
hindquarters, with cuffs left around the ankles and hips to protect against rheumatism. Each hunter
marked his dogs' heads with a ribbon of his own color, allowing groups of hunters to tell their dogs
apart.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death
Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves of their royal robes.
Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that
while a dogs memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat's can last as long as 16 hours - exceeding
even that of monkeys and orangutans.
Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open. Those in the center of the group
confidently close both eyes.
A crocodile's digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog and cause excruciating pain
among humans.
The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
You should not eat a crawfish with a straight tail. It was dead before it was cooked.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red ear lobes. There is a genetic link between the two
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
The Madagascan Hissing Cockroach is one of the few insects who give birth to live young, rather
than laying eggs.
Scientists have managed to mix a goat with a spider to create a goat that produces spider's silk in
its milk. The goats look completely normal, and they are in fact only 1/70,000th spider. By inserting
just one spider gene into a goat's egg, the adult goat produces milk that can be processed to create
an incredibly strong spider's silk fabric. The 'Biosteel' fabric is estimated to be five times as strong
as steel, and about the same weight as cotton.
The original name for butterfly was flutterby
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Squids can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first,
so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating. They sweat through the pads of their
feet.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse
and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.