- Birds do not sleep in their nests. They may occasionally nap
in them, but they actually sleep in other places.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in
plane crashes.
- Lobsters can live up to 50 years.
- Male flies only gather at the base of bright lights when they
are having a mating assembly.
- In 1939, a shower of tiny frogs fell on the English town of
Trowbridge. Strong winds had carried them aloft from streams and
ponds.
- Bees have five eyes. There are 3 small eyes on the top of a
bee's head and 2 larger ones in front.
- The fruit flys DNA sequence is 180 million bases long, whilst
a humans is three billion.
- In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- Cows do not have upper front teeth.
- A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million
young.
- Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as
to any other colour.
- Spider web filaments were used in gun sights as the 'cross hairs'
until the early 1960's.
- No two zebras have the same markings.
- Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
- Killer Whales (Orcas) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than
any other wild animal.
- A baby elephant calf can weigh up to 260 pounds when it is born.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous
snakes combined.
- Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It
excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an
excretion of the dominant female's urine.
- Ancient Chinese royalty carried Pekingese dogs in the sleeves
of their royal robes.
- Ducks on the outer edges of a group sleep with one eye open.
Those in the center of the group confidently close both eyes.
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