Animals

Lions pull in their claws so they can sneak up on their prey.
No two giraffes have the exact same pattern of spots.
The heaviest horse was a Belgian stallion that weighed more than a ton.
Pigs have no sweat glands, so they roll around in the mud to cool off.
Some turtles will lay their eggs in an alligator's nest.
Some yaks' milk is pink.
Only 2 mammals lay eggs: the duck-billed platypus and the spiny anteater.
The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
The fastest greyhound was clocked at just under 42 miles per hour.
The hippopotamus protects itself from the sun by giving off a reddish oil.
The kangaroo rat can live its entire life without drinking water.
The lips of a hippopotamus are nearly two feet wide.
The moose is the largest member of the deer family.
During birth, a baby giraffe drops 6 feet to the ground and lands on its head.
A cow gives enough milk each day to fill 62 glasses.
A giraffe's tongue is so long that it can be used to clean its ears.
A group of kangaroos is sometimes called a mob.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a person.
A koala is a marsupial -- an animal that raises its young in a pouch.
A moose grows a set of 7-foot antlers in just 10 weeks.
A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit into a teaspoon.
A pygmy shrew can eat its own weight in food every 3 hours.
A reindeer eats more than 20 pounds of moss a day.
A very thirsty camel can drink 25 gallons of water in 10 minutes
An African elephant's ears can weigh over 100 pounds each.
An Asiatic elephant is pregnant for 609 days before the calf is born.
At birth, a walrus is about four feet long.
At night a cat can see about six times better than a human.
Beavers' teeth grow one inch every 30 days.
A rabbit can see behind itself without turning its head.
Cows can smell odors 6 miles away.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A bloodhound can pick up a scent that is 5 days old and follow it for 50 miles.
In the jungle, a lion's roar can be heard 10 miles away.
Kangaroos can jump as high as 11 feet.
oup of kangaroos is sometimes called a mob.
A hippopotamus can run faster than a person.
A moose grows a set of 7-foot antlers in just 10 weeks.
A pygmy shrew can eat its own weight in food every 3 hours.
A reindeer eats more than 20 pounds of moss a day.
An African elephant's ears can weigh over 100 pounds each.
An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100 times a minute.
At birth, a walrus is about four feet long.
Hippopotamus teeth can grow as long as 20 inches.