A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mateA duck's quack doesn't echo.
All polar bears are left-handed
Leeches have mouths with 3 sets of jaws and between 60 100 teeth
Spiders don't eat their prey; they paralyze their victim with venom, vomit a wad of acidic liquid into them, then drink the dissolving body
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death
Slugs have four noses
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur
Pregnant Goldfishes are called Twit's
The collective word for Unicorns is a Blessing
A group of more than 12 cows is a Flink
A cat's urine glows under a black light.
Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate effects a dog’s heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog.Most
lipstick contains fish scales.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.A cockroach will live
nine days without it's 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.
Some lions mate over 50
times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
An ostrich's eye is
bigger than it's brain.
Starfishes haven't got brains.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms
America has the Most Captive Elephants in The world, owning 624 of them. The second highest is Germany who have 276.
The first dinosaur to be named was the Megalosaurus which Means Great Lizard. It was named in 1824 by William Bickland before the actual word Dinosaur had been coined.
The Most important island for Conservation is New Caledonia. It has2,688 endemic Species, 172 threatened species and its conservation importance index is 115. This is determined by taking into account terrestrial and marine conversation importance, native specie, threatened specie, level of vulnerability and special features
The Country with the Most threatened species is Indonesia with 140 different threatened mammals. The Most endangered are The Sumatran Rhino the Javan rhino, the long footed water rat, the lowland brush rat. Those are found in other countries but; The Dwarf Gymnure, The Sumatran Water Shrew, Flores Shrew, Sumatran Rabbit, Mentawai macaque monkey, Javan Gibbon, lesser small-toothed rat, Alpine wooly rat, enganno rat and the Sumatran Flying squirrel.
The Heaviest Owl is the Eurasian eagle-owl. It has a wingspan of 75cm (29") and weighs 4.20 kg (9lb 4oz).
The Banana Spider (Phoenutria Nigriventer) is the Worlds Deadliest Spider. It has 6mg of Venom when 1mg is a lethal dose for an adult human. It lives mainly in Central and South America
The World's heaviest Carnivore is the Southern Elephant Seal which weighs in at 3,500kg (7,716lb) and is 6.5m (21ft 4 inches) long
The Deadliest Snake is the Black mamba which has a lethal dose of venom of 3mg and has a maximum of 800mg of it. There is a total of 266 deaths per bite and the range of its mortality rate is between 90 and 100.
The Largest Diurnal Bird of Prey is the Himalayan Griffon Vulture which is 150cm (59") long
The Great White shark has killed More Humans that any other type as has a record of 254 unprovoked attacks, 67 of which, victims died.
More people are attacked in the USA (including Hawaii, US Marshall Islands, US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rica) as it has 31.8% of the world total, because 110 people have died because of them
The Longest Snake is the Reticulated (royal) Python with a maximum Length of 10.7 m (35ft)
Many People think that The Sloth sleeps more in a day than any other animal, but it doesn't. The Koala has an average of 22 hours of sleep a day whereas the Sloth only has 20.
The Animal with the longest Gestation Period is the African elephant which has an average of 660 days, as opposed to the 303 day average of Humans
The Gorilla is the Heaviest Primate as it is 200cm (79in) long and weighs 220 kg (485lb)
The Most Abundant class of Animal are Insects and Spiders
The Cheetah is the fastest mammal with a maximum recorded speed of 105km/h (65 mp/h)
The Heaviest terrestrial Animal is the African Elephant that weighs in at a colossal 7,000kg (14,432lb) and is 7.3m (24ft) long
The Sperm Whale has the Heaviest brain of any animal as the average is 7,800g (17lb 3oz)
The Heavies Turtle is the Pacific Leatherback Turtle with max. weight of 704.4kg (1,552lb)
Ants don't sleep.A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs have about ten.
There are only three animals with blue tongues - the Black Bear, the Chow
Chow Dog and the blue tongue lizard.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant
Is a world
population of 6 billion too many? Compare that with animals. There are more than
a million animal species. There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of
spiders, and 3,000 types of lice. For each person there is about 200 million
insects. The 4,600 kinds of mammals represent a mere 0,3% of animals and the
9000 kinds of birds only 0,7%. The most numerous bird specie is the red-billed
quelea of southern Africa. There are an estimated 100 trillion of them.
Mammals are the
only animals with flaps around the ears.
African elephants
only have four teeth to chew their food with.
There are about one
billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
A house fly lives
only 14 days.
A dog was the first
in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air
balloon.
The oldest breed of
dog is the Saluki.
The bee hummingbird
of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
An ostrich can run
up to 70 km/h (43mph).
An annoyed camel
will spit at a person.
The world's
smallest dog is the Chihuahua, which means "tiny dog in the sky."
Pea crabs (the size
of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
75% of wild birds
die before they are 6 months old.
The pig is rated
the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
Sheep are mentioned
45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible.
Pork is the world's
most widely-eaten meat.
In Denmark there
are twice as many pigs as people.
Dinosaurs did not
eat grass: there weren't any at that time.
The coyote is a
member of the dog family and its scientific name, "canis latrans"
means barking dog.
A giraffe can clean
its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
A group of geese on
the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein. More
The South American
giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
It is impossible to
out-swim a shark - sharks reach speeds of 70 km/h (44 mph). Humans can run about
35 km/h (21 mph).
The sailfish is the
fastest swimmer, reaching 109 km/h (68 mph).
The slowest fish is
the Sea Horse, which moves along at about 0.016 km/h (0.01 mph).
Dolphins can reach
60 km/h (37 mph).
Of the 650 types of
leeches, only the Hirudo medicinalis is used for medical treatments.
The heart of a blue
whale is the size of a small car.
The tongue of a
blue whale is as long as an elephant.
The scales of a
crocodile are made of ceratin, the same substance that hooves and fingernails
are made of.
A crocodile's
tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
A snail has two
pairs of tentacles on its head. One pair is longer than the other and houses the
eyes. The shorter pair is used for smelling and feeling its way around.
The heaviest
crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 19 kg (42 lb), caught in 1934.
The largest
jellyfish ever caught measured 2,3 m (7'6") across the bell with a tentacle
of 36 m (120 ft) long.
The largest giant
squid ever recorded was captured in the North Atlantic in 1878. It weighed 4
tons. Its tentacles measured 10 m (35 ft) long.
The giant squid has
the biggest eyes of any animal: its eyes measure 40 cm (16 in) in diameter.
Domestic cats purr
at about 26 cycles per second, the same frequency as an idling diesel engine.
Sharks are immune
to all known diseases.
Sharks and rays
also share the same kind of skin: instead of scales, they have small tooth-like
spikes called denticles. The spikes are so sharp that shark skin has long been
used as sandpaper.
Animals also are
either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed - and so is
Kermit the Frog.
There are 701 types
of pure breed dogs.
There are about 53
million dogs in the US, and Paris is said to have more dogs than people.
Some bird species,
usually flightless birds, have only a lower eyelid, whereas pigeons use upper
and lower lids to blink.
Fish and insects do
not have eyelids - their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
Measured in
straight flight, the spine-tailed swift is the fastest bird. It flies 170 km/h
(106 mph). Second fastest is the Frigate, which reaches 150 km/h (94 mph).
Millions of trees
are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they
hid them.
There are more than
150 million sheep in Australia, a nation of 17 million people.
