- The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings
that would kill any other animal.
- Giraffes have no vocal cords.
- The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World
War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
- During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
- Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
- The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
- When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They
actually pass out from sheer terror.
- The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see
all four feet at all times.
- A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
- If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, as they need
gravity to swallow.
- A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
- The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called
jackass penguins.
- Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
- Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
- A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
- A dolphin's hearing is so acute that it can pick up an underwater
sound from fifteen miles away.
- Chickens absorb vitamin-D through their combs from sunshine.
- The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red
and ultra-violet light.
- Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as
three Greyhound buses.
- Butterflies taste with their hind feet.
- Catfish have 100,000 taste buds.
- Almost every known dog except the Chow and the Shar Pei has
a pink tongue.
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but
monkeys can't.
- Platypuses aren't the only egg-laying mammals on earth. Echidnas,
which resemble a cross between a Hedgehog and Anteater, also lay
eggs and produces milk for its young.
- A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
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