- A bear has 42 teeth
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain
- Rabbits like licorice
- Reindeer like bananas
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds
- Birds need gravity to swallow
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear
- Cats spend 66% of their life asleep
- Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue
- Elephants sleep between 4 – 5 hours in 24 period
- It’s possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
- Frogs can’t swallow with their eyes open
- Elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump
- Frogs don’t drink (they absorb water through their skin)
- Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards
- A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head
- Dragonflies have 6 legs but can’t walk
- A crocodile can’t move its tongue
- Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal
- Bats always turn left when exiting a cave
- Cows don’t have upper front teeth
- An octopus pupil is rectangular
- Cats can’t move their jaw sideways
- Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky
- A group of frogs is called an army
- A group of rhinos is called a crash
- A group of kangaroos is called a mob
- A group of whales is called a pod
- A group of geese is called a gaggle
- A group of owls is called a parliament
- The only animals that purr are cats
- White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf
- Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length
- Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels
- A crocodile can’t stick out its tongue
- Only female mosquitoes bite
- Hummingbirds can’t walk
- Owls can’t move their eyes from side to side
- Flamingos can bend their knees backwards
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning
- More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks
- Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day
- The lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years
- The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair
- There are more chickens than people
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes
- Emus can’t walk backwards
- The average hen lays 228 eggs a year
- More people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
- More people are killed from bees than snakes
- The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days
- A dolphins top speed is 60kmh (37mph)
- A sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people)
- Sharks are immune to all known diseases
- African elephants only have 4 teeth
- 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year
- It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length
- A honeybee’s top speed is 24kph (15mph)
- Horses have 18 more bones than humans
- A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph)
- Horses sleep standing up
- Bats are the only mammals that fly
- A snail can sleep for 3 years
- Tigers have striped skin as well as fur
- Crocodiles are colour blind
- A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body
- Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet
- Hippopotamuses are born under water
- Whales can’t swim backwards
- Camels are born without humps
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
- There are more insects in the world than all other animals combined
- Giraffes can’t swim
- Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
- An elephant’s trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
- Bull’s can run faster uphill than down
- A moth has no stomach
- Grasshoppers have white blood
- It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg
- You have fewer muscles than a caterpillar
- Giraffes have no vocal cords
- Most birds eat twice their body weight each day
- Armadillos can walk underwater
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers
- The cheetah is the only cat that can’t retract it’s claws
- Roosters can’t crow if they can’t fully extend their necks
- Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away
- Flamingos can only eat when their head is upside down
- The fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human
- Porcupines float in water
- There are a million ants for every person on Earth
- Coconuts kill over 150 people each year (more than sharks)
- Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal
- India has over 50 million monkeys
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects
- A squid has 10 tentacles
- You’re more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined
- A woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice
- Snakes can’t blink
- Ants don’t like baby powder (talcum powder)
- A rat can tread water for 3 days
- Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout
- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away
- Flamingoes can live up to 80 years
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica
- Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest
- Greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed
- When 2 zebras stand side by side they usually face each other in opposite directions to keep an eye out for predators
- Most cows produce more milk when they listen to music
- Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal
- Snakes can’t bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise)
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating
- Gorillas can’t swim
- House cats have 18 claws
- Giraffes can’t cough
- Deer don’t like hay
- There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day
- Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes
- Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey
- March 14 is ‘save a spider day’
- There are over 4,300 known species of ladybugs
- Butterflies taste with their back feet
- Bees have 4 wings
- 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages usually German or Hungarian)
- Jellyfish don’t have a brain
- Ferrets sleep between 18 – 20 hours a day
- A group of foxes is called a skulk
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man
- A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long
- Lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year
- A male baboon can kill a leopard
- Rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot
- A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs
- Elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph)
- Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September
- Most snakes have 1 lung
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand
- The night vision of tigers is 6 times better than humans
- In Africa more people are killed by crocodiles than lions
- Out of the 250+ known species of shark only 18 are known to be dangerous to man
- An ostrich can outrun a horse
- Ostriches can live up to 75 years old
- Sheep won’t drink from running water
- Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground
- Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old
- The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses
- The greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph)
- The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots)
- Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years
- Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick
- An arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals
- Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator)
- Toads only eat moving prey
- When born, a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall
- A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo
- Crocodiles continually grow new sets of teeth to replace old ones
- The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight
- There are over 1,600 known species of starfishes
- There are over 320 species of parrots
- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant’s trunk
- There are over 690 known species of bats
- There are over 130 species of owl
- A garfish has green bones
- A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm
- A cat can keep purring while inhaling and exhaling
- A fox litter is 10 to 15 pups
- The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours
- Camels can drink 94 litres (25 gallons) of water in less than 3 minutes
- You can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away
- Drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken
- A dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph)
- A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day
- Ants can lift 50 times their own weight
- It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie
- Queen termites can live up to 50 years
- Most spiders have transparent blood
- Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h))
- Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes
- There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies
- There are over 80,000 different species of ants
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl
- Moths have white blood
- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate
- Polar bears are strictly carnivores
- Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years
- The tallest mammal is the giraffe
- Warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph)
- Warthogs live for 15 years
- When baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month
- Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal
- Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time
- A chameleon’s tongue is twice as long as its body
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second
- Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds
- Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet
- No two spider webs are the same
- Worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15
- The study of insects is called entomology
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks
- There are over 900 species of bats
- After bananas a zoo gorilla’s favorite food is celery
- The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating
- Gatophobia is the fear of cats
- Helminthophobia is the fear of worms
- Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles
- Hippophobia is the fear of horses
- Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish
- Melissophobia is the fear of bees
- Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants
- Ornithophobia is the fear of birds
- Zoophobia is the fear of animals
- A lion feeds once every 3 to 4 days
- Lions can’t roar until the age of 2
- All owls lay white eggs
- All snakes are carnivorous
- The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet)
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds
- The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old
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