- Birds don’t urinate.
- Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
- Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
- If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
- The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
- A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
- Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
- Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin. The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
- Male mosquitos do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
- Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
- Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
- Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
- A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
- A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
- A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
- Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
- Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
- Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
- A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
- When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
- A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
- The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
- The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
- Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
- The leech has 32 brains.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.
- The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
- It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
- Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
- Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs. Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
- Horses and cows sleep while standing up.
- If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop – they use their tails for balance.
- The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.
- The bat is the only mammal that can fly. The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
- A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
- Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.
- Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin. The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.
- Male mosquitos do not bite, only female mosquito bites.
- For every human in the world there are one million ants.
- For every person there are rougly 200 million insects.
- Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death!
- Alligators and sharks can live up to 100 years.
- Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
- A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
- A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
- A bee can see the colors green, blue and ultra-violet – but red looks like black.
- Great white Sharks can go as long as three months without eating.
- Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae; but as adults they live for only a few hours.
- Killer whales kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale. The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
- A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
- When a dolphin is sick or injured, its cries of distress summon immediate aid from other dolphins, who try to support it to the surface so that it can breathe.
- A dragonfly can spot an insect moving 33 feet away.
- The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.
- The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
- A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length. It then grows inside its mother’s bag.
- Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.
- The leech has 32 brains.
- Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing sand.
- The average outdoor-only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor-only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
- It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
- On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
- Sharks are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
- Goat’s eyes have rectangular pupils.
- The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
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