A blindfolded dolphin can find a nickel at the bottom of its tank.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A group of frogs is called an army.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A housefly beats its wings about 20,000 times per minute.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
A jellyfish is 95% water.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A salamander froze in ice while hibernating and remained in deep freeze for ninety years. It was warmed up and restored by Russian scientists.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
All polar bears are left handed.
Although beavers live near rivers, streams and lakes - they do not eat fish. Beavers eat only plants. They eat poplar trees, carrots, cattail, mushrooms, potatoes, berries, water plants, swamp wood, and fruit. Soft bark is the main food for a beaver.
An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.
An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than it’s brain.
Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Armadillos can be housebroken.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, which is rarely visible. If it is visible it could be an indication of ill health.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Chimpanzee DNA and human DNA is about 98.4% identical.
Deep sea clams can live to be more than 100 years old.
Despite the many rat-infested slums in New York City, rats bite only 311 people in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks until it starves to death.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
Grasshoppers have white blood.
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
Horses and rabbits cannot vomit.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
In his book "The Insects", naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that the females are born pregnant.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Koala bears have fingerprints so similar to those made by humans that they could confuse crime-scene investigators.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Mosquitoes have teeth.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!
Only animal besides human that can get sunburn: pig
Only bird that can fly backwards: Hummingbird
Only continent without reptiles or snakes: Antarctica
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
Pink Elephants? In regions of India where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves against insects.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Porcupines float in water!
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Six toed cats are so common in Boston and surrounding parts of Massachusetts that some experts consider it an established mutation.
Slugs have 4 noses!
Smartest dogs: (in order) 1) border collie 2) poodle 3) golden retriever. Dumbest dog: Afghan
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food
St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have. A famous Alpine rescue dog, Barry, who saved the lives of 41 persons 170 years ago, was so well loved that a commemorative portrait was painted of him. The artist, apparently thinking the detail added interest, drew a brandy keg around Barry's neck, launching the "tradition" that lives on today.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
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 average airspeed of the common housefly is 4 1/2 mph.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, making the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
The eagle has sex while going up to 60 mph. in flight, and it is common for both eagles to hit the ground before they finish.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, which is like a human jumping the length of two football fields.
The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than cold does.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
The Katydid hears through holes in it's hind legs.
The length of a gorilla's penis is 1/3 that of a human.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
The only insect that can turn it's head is a praying mantis.
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The Russian Blue is a breed of cat prone to having an extra toe.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out
The starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their jaws won't open wide enough.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth
There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."
When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
You can tell a turtle's sex by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
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