- The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the
grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
- The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
- Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long
as 15 years.
- The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow,
and the blood of lobsters is blue.
- Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp
or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a
mile away.
- The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels
off several times a year with new growth.
- The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible
in an American court.
- Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids
can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
- Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
- Snakes are immune to their own poison.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only
have about ten.
- The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which
weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have
over a million descendants.
- Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000
dogs and cats.
- A shrimp's heart is in their head.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.
- The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
- A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
- Lassie was played by several male dogs, despite the female name,
because male collies were thought to look better on camera. The
main "actor" was named Pal.
- German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
- A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
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