- The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings
that would kill any other animal.
- The fruit flys dna sequence is 180 million bases long, whilst
a humans is three billion.
- The most common name for a goldfish is "Jaws."
- Male flies only gather at the base of bright lights as they
are having a mating asembly.
- Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostate glands.
- The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter
a second.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
- Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much
salt in it.
- A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
- Elephants can detect the aroma of ripening fruit from over 20
kilometres away.
- Camel's hair brushes are not made of camel's hair. They were
invented by a man named Mr Camel.
- Mayflies live for a year or more as larvae, but as adults they
live for only a few hours.
- When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called
a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring
is called a hinny.
- A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million
young.
- As a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or
relatively big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller
the rest of the brain.
- 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.
- The Whale Shark can get up to 50 feet long and weigh over 16
tons. Its mouth can open as wide as five feet.
- A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
- A crocodile's digestive juices are so strong that it can digest
a steel nail.
- Julius Caeser, Henri II, Charles XI and Napoleon all had ailurophobia,
a fear of cats.
- The Maine Coon cat is America's only natural breed of domestic
feline.
- Did you know that at Disneyland they have like hundreds of wild
domesticated cats running around the park? They never come out
during the day because there's too many people, but the reason
they're there is to catch the mice.
- The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years.
Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
- The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course
of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African
sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand,
weighing less than a penny.
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