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The biggest Antartic inland animal is a wingless fly measuring about 60 mm long.
Fleas can jump up to 30 cm, twenty times their own body length.
Many birds migrate, but the Arctic tern travels furthest. It flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and
back again, a trip of 32,000 kilometers.
Some animals can regrow parts of their bodies if damaged. Starfish can grow new 'arms.' Slow-
worms can regrow broken-off tails. Lizards can grow new tails.
One golden poison-dart frog could kill up to 1500 people with its poison.
The giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal. They can be 39 cm across, which is 16 times
wider than a human eye.
The peregrine falcon can spot its prey from more than 8 km away.
The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and opossums. They spend 80 per cent of their
lives sleeping or dozing.
A mayfly only lives one day, but a tortoise can expect to live 100 years.
Stegosaurus was one of the most famous of the dinosaurs and was an impressive 9 metres long.
But its brain was the size of a walnut.
The small Darwin's frog, which lives in Chile's cool forest streams, nurtures its young in an
unusual manner. After the female lays 30 or so eggs, the male guards them for two weeks and
then swallows the surviving ones. In the male's vocal pouch, the offspring develop until they're
able to survive on their own and hop out.
Moose have very poor vision. Some have even tried to mate with cars.
The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
In his book, The Insects, naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so
rapid that females are born pregnant.
When a frog swallows a meal, his bulgy eyeballs will close and go down into his head. This is
because the eyeballs apply pressure and actually push a frog's meal down his throat!
The pudu, a native of Chile's temperate rainforest, stands just 18 inches high, making it the
world's smallest deer.
Pigs are the only animal that will drink hard liquor voluntarily,
When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that
reason.
When frogs eat something that is poisonous or otherwise bad for them, they can throw up their
entire stomach. That is, the stomach actually protrudes through their mouth and they wipe it with
their right front leg.Why the right front leg? The stomach of frogs is slightly towards their left side.
When the stomach is ejected, it pulls to the right (since the membranes holding the stomach in
place are shorter on that side). Since the right front leg can reach the stomach (and the left can't),
frogs use their right leg to wipe the stomach and get rid of whatever nasty material is disturbing
them.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
When opossums are playing "possum", they are not playing. They actually pass out from sheer
terror.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Frogs may be hypnotised by placing them on their back and gently stroking their stomach.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones.
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
Penguins are the only birds that can leap into the air like porpoises.
Pigs can cover a mile in 7.5 minutes when running at top speed.
The left leg of a chicken in more tender than the right one.
The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.
There are more insects in ten square feet of a rain forest than there are people in Manhattan.
The smartest dogs are the Jack Russell Terrier and Scottish Border collie. Dumbest: Afghan
hound.
Spider-Goat - Scientists have managed to mix a goat with a spider to create a goat that produces
spider's silk in its milk. The goats look completely normal, and they are in fact only 1/70,000th
spider. By inserting just one spider gene into a goat's egg, the adult goat produces milk that can
be processed to create an incredibly strong spider's silk fabric. The 'Biosteel' fabric is estimated
to be five times as strong as steel, and about the same weight as cotton.
The oldest domestic cat (with reliable documentation) was a female tabby named "Ma" that lived
to be 34 years old.
The biggest frog in the world, the Goliath frog, is also the best high-jumper. It can leap 3 metres
into the air.
The opening to a cave where a bear hibernates is always on the north slope.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Elephant ears can weigh over 100 pounds and be 6 feet across. They use them to fan and cool
themselves.
When an elephant family member dies, they bury them with twigs and leaves and "cry" for several
hours.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive. (note from Becky: PLEASE DON'T
TRY THIS!)
Carmine bee-eaters (a type of bird) begin their nest holes by flying head-first into the dirt to make
a dent. They line their nest holes with the remains of insects they eat and then throw up - the
smell keeps the rodents away.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
Cats do not have a collarbone, so they can fit through any opening the size of their head.
A dragonfly's penis is shovel-shaped at the end, to scoop a rival male's sperm out of the female
it's impregnating.
Leatherback turtles' throats have spines that keep slippery prey like jellyfish from sliding out and
escaping.
Amazon ants raid the nests of other ants to steal the other ants' larvae to hatch in their own nest.
Then they use the hatched ants to do all their work for them. Amazon ants are so adapted to
fighting that they can't take care of themselves or their nest - that's why they steal and raise other
ants as slaves.
In 7 years, one female cat and her babies can theoretically be the source of 420,000 cats.
Male anglerfish physically attach themselves to females early in life. The females continue to
grow but the males don't. The males are parasites. Over time, they lose most of their inner organs
and depend on the female's bodies to survive. Two males may live off one female.
Armadillos have four babies at a time, and they are always the same sex.
A large majority of white cats with blue eyes are deaf. White cats with only one blue eye are deaf
only in the ear closest to the blue eye. White cats with orange eyes do not have this disability.
Fish cough.
A snail breathes through its foot.
Male satin bower birds build "bowers," or shelters, out of sticks and leaves. The birds decorate
the bowers with brightly coloured objects they find, like buttons, bottle caps, cloth, clothes pins,
paper clips, string, and gum wrappers. Using charcoal softened with saliva to make black paint
and chewed berries to make red, bower birds paint the inside of their bowers.
Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
Elephants go through six sets of teeth in their lifetime. When their last set wears down, they
cannot eat anymore and die.
To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you go
instantly.
A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an
ostrich buried its head in the sand.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants.
* The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g).
* Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
* Polar bears are left handed.
* A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
* Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur.
* Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing.
* Snakes can see through their eyelids.
* A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
* Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to
cushion the brain.
* The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees.
An average dairy cow produces four times its body weight in manure each year.
-A sheep trained to turn the lights on and off will leave them them on 82% of the time.
-All dogs except the Chow have a pink tongue, the Chow's tongue is bluish black.
-Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.
-The stomach of a hippo can be up to 10 feet long and hold up to 400 pounds of food.
-If left alone, a dog will spend up to 3 hours a day remarking its scent posts.
-A snapping turtle can only swollow when its head is under water.
-When given unlimited access to mice, cats will kill about 15 before stopping.
-A homing pigeon will not be able to find its way home if a magnet it attached to their neck.
-The upstroke of a bird's wing moves it forward, the downstroke only keeps it airborn.
-A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel.
-A freshly hatched crocodile is three times longer than the egg it came from.
-You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
-Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do.
-Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food.
Updated 2/24/05
-Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.
-Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
-Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey's (Jackass).
-Sloths sneeze slowly. They also give birth upside down.... slowly.
-Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on
Earth.
-To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000.
-Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to.
-The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day.
-Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz.
-The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
-A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds.
-A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter.
-Sheep snore.
-The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil.
-The English Sparrow is not a sparrow and it comes from Africa, not England.
-To get a gallon of milk, it takes about 345 squirts from a cow's utter.
-The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century england was seven years in prison.
-Even bloodhounds cannot smell the difference between two identical twins.