A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A bee must visit 4,000 flowers in order
to make one tablespoon of honey.
Humpback whales create the loudest
sound of any living creature.
Bald eagles may use the same nest
year after year, adding more twigs and
branches each time. One nest was
found that had been used for 34 years
and weighed over two tons.
Great White Sharks can go as long as
three months without eating.
A bee can see the colors green, blue
and ultra-violet - but red looks like
black.
A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of
15 inches which are the largest of any
animal.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Mayflies live for a year or more as
larvae; but as adults they live for only
a few hours.
Bats always turn left when leaving a
cave.
3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from
hearing loss due to inbreeding.
Hummingbirds are the only animal
that can also fly backwards.
Polar bears are the only mammal with
hair on the soles of its feet.
The African Elephant has a gestation
period of 22 months while a short-
nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
The cockroach is the fastest animal on
6 legs covering a meter a second.
The mortality rate if bitten by a Black
Mambo snake is over 95%.
Ticks are second only to the mosquito
as the most dangerous parasites to
humans.
According to one study, plant and
animal species are becoming extinct at
the rate of 17 per hour.
The only 2 animals that can see behind
itself without turning it's head are the
rabbit and the parrot.
A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times
stronger than humans.
Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by
torpedoing up into the shark's stomach
from underneath, causing the shark to
explode.

Hummingbird’s consume half of their
weight in food daily.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a
man.
A large swarm of locusts can eat
80,000 tons of corn in a day.
Most elephants weigh less than the
tongue of a blue whale.
Female fleas consume fifteen times
their weight daily.
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.
The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth.
Each tooth is only 3mm long.
A rhinoceros beetle can support up to
850 times its own weight on it's back.
That would be the equivalent of a man
carrying 76 family-sized cars around
on his back.
Mosquitoes have been found to prefer
biting people with smelly feet.
A dragonfly can spot an insect moving
33 feet away.
Certain Chinese and American
alligators can survive the winter by
freezing their heads in ice, leaving
their nose out to breath for months on
end.
Polar Bears are capable of jumping as
high as 6 feet and can run as fast as
25mph.
Sea Otters use so much energy that
they need to eat as much as one-third
of their weight each day.
The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were
made of spider web filaments until the
1960’s.
The sailfish, the swordfish and the
mako shark have all been clocked at
swimming over 50mph.
Mosquitos are attracted most to the
color blue.
The male penguin incubates the single
egg laid by his mate. During the two
month period he does not eat, and will
lose up to 40% of his body weight.
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
The heart of a shrimp is located in its
head.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from
smashing into windows.

A group of herring is called a seige.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint
or snowflake. No two cows have
exactly the same pattern of spots.
Cats prefer to eat their food at 86º F,
which is why they don't immediately
gulp down the half-eaten can of food
from the refrigerator.
A goldfish is the only animal that can
see infrared and ultraviolet light.
One in 5,000 North Atlantic lobsters
are born bright blue.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
A group of jelly fish is called a smack.
The oceans contain 99 percent of the
living space on the planet.
The fingerprints of koala bears are
virtually indistinguishable from those
of humans, so much so that they could
be confused at a crime scene.
There are 701 types of pure breed
dogs.
There are about 100 breeds of cats.
A tiger's paw prints are called pug
marks.
Over 100,000 birds, whales, seals and
turtles worldwide are killed by plastic
rubbish every year. Marine life, in
particular turtles, is prone to
mistaking plastic bags for jellyfish,
ingesting them and dying of intestinal
blockage.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift,
can fly as fast as 106mph.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Armadillos have four babies at a time
and they are always all the same sex.
Spotted skunks do handstands before
they spray.
Bird droppings are the chief export of
Nauru, an island nation in the Western
Pacific.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of
milk in her lifetime.
A cheetah can reach a top speed
approaching 70 mph.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in
length.
Greyhounds can jump a distance of 27
feet.
Yak milk is pink in color.
An iguana can stay under water for 28
minutes.
Of the approximately 200 eggs laid by
a female leatherback sea turtle an
average of two will survive their youth
and grow to sexual maturity.
Dolphins sleep with one half of the
brain at a time, and one eye closed.
A woodpecker can peck 20 times per
second.
For every person there are rougly 200
million insects.
An electric eel can produce a shock of
up to 650 volts.
The leech has 32 brains.
Camels have three eyelids to protect
themselves from blowing sand.
The Galpagos Tortoise has a potential
life span of 200 years.

A group of owls is called a parliament.
Of all known forms of animals life ever
to inhabit the Earth, only about 10
percent still exist today.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
On average, pigs live for about 15
years.
Elephants have been found swimming
miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
Sharks apparently are the only
animals that never get sick. They are
immune to every type of disease
including cancer.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by
smell.
A chameleon’s tongue is twice the
length of its body.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully
extend their necks.
Male seahorses produce offspring.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its
head enables it to see all four feet at
all times.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a
horse.
Elephants have been known to remain
standing after they die.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
An albatross can sleep while flying.
A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it
can pick up an underwater sound from
fifteen miles away.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
No two zebras have the same
markings.
A flamingo can eat only when its head
is upside down.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are
attracted to people who have recently
eaten bananas.
Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
The sex organ on a male spider is
located at the end of one of its legs.
Birds do not sleep in their nests. They
may occasionally nap in them, but they
actually sleep in other places.
Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s
spend about 80% of their lives
sleeping.
Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
The ears of a cricket are located on the
front legs, just below the knee.
Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small
eyes on the top of a bee's head and 2
larger ones in front.

The cheetah is the only cat in the
world that can't retract its claws.
Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
A baby bat is called a pup.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in
shape, because of this, they cannot
move their eyes.
The world's largest rodent is the
Capybara. An Amazon water hog that
looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh
more than 100 pounds.
The poisonous copperhead snake
smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
Almost 65% of Central America has
been cleared to create pastureland for
grazing cattle.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults,
and blondes to brunettes.
Hummingbirds are the smallest birds -
so tiny that one of their enemies is an
insect, the praying mantis.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound
from a squeaking door to a cat
meowing.
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.
The poison-arrow frog has enough
poison to kill about 2,200 people.
It is physically impossible for pigs to
look up into the sky.
The venom of the stonefish can kill a
human in two hours.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by
infrared cameras, due to their
transparent fur.
The mouse is the most common
mammal in the US.
If a shark doesn't continually swim, it
will sink.
Dragonflies are one of the fastest
insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-
inch tongue.
Worker ants may live seven years and
the queen may live as long as 15 years.
You should not eat a crawfish with a
straight tail. It was dead before it was
cooked.
One square mile of rainforest has
more types of butterflies than all of
North America.
A newborn giant panda is only the size
of a stick of butter.
The honeybee kills more people
world-wide than all the poisonous
snakes combined.
Each year, insects eat 1/3 of the
Earth's food crop.
It would require an average of 18
hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300
feet of earth in a day.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native
Americans once used them as knife
blades.
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.
Rats like boiled sweets better than
they like cheese.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the
length of its body.
Honeybees may collect pollen from as
many as 500 flowers, all of the same
species - in a single trip.
The largest eggs in the world are laid
by a shark.
Most brands of lipstick and some kinds
of fruit drinks are tinted with extract
from the cochineal insect.
The hummingbird's brain, 4.2 percent
of its body weight, is proportionately
the largest among birds.
Squirrels are immune to rabies.
A snail only mates once.
Flamingos are not naturally pink. They
get their color from their food -- tiny
green algae that turn pink during
digestion.
Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye.
USDA sources reveal that flies
contaminate or destroy 10 billion
dollars of agricultural products each
year.
There are 6,500+ species of fly living
in Britain alone. (There are over
16,000+ in North America)
The weight of insects eaten by spiders
every year is greater than the total
weight of the entire human
population.
Shrimp can only swim backwards.
Chickens that lay brown eggs have red
ear lobes. There is a genetic link
between the two.
Other than fruit, honey is the only
natural food that is made without
destroying any kind of life! What about
milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to
produce milk and grass is living!
It is a misdemeanor to kill or threaten
a butterfly -- so says City Ordinance
No. 352 in Pacific Grove, California.
The calories burned daily by the sled
dogs running in Alaska's annual
Iditarod race average 10,000.
You can hypnotise a frog by placing it
on it's back and gently stroking it's
stomach.
The owl can catch a mouse in utter
darkness, guided only by tiny sounds
made by its prey.
Ants are said to never cross a chalk
line. So if you've got ants, draw a line
on the floor with chalk or wherever
the ants are coming in and see for
yourself! They won't cross the line.
Baking soda works, too!
Coral reefs are massive limestone
structures that provide shelter for
over 25 percent of all marine life.
The koala is the world’s fussiest eater
and feeds uniquely on eucalyptus
leaves.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much
as 12 pounds.
Adult fleas can live for up to 2 years
during which time the female can lay
up to 1,200 eggs.
Elephant seals are air-breathing
mammals, but they can hold their
breath for up to two hours while
diving.
Apart from humans the only land
animal that cries is the elephant.
The longest snake is the reticulated
python, which can reach over 33 ft.
Dragonflies have the largest eyes and
sharpest eyesight of any insect. Each
eye is made up of more than 30,000
separate rod-like units.
The collective name for a group of
frogs is an "army of frog"; in the case
of their warty cousins, it’s a "knot of
toads".
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