- Rats can live without water longer than a camel can!
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
- On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That explains a few mysteries....)
- Cost of raising a medium sized dog to the age of 11: $6,400.
- The worlds youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- Mosquito repellents don't repel, they hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito sensors so they don't know you're there.
- Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes do.
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
- Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
- If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
- Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it will digest itself.
- Every person has a unique tonque print.
- Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
- Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
- If you pour a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
- Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them. (sorta obvious)
- An animal epidemic is called an epizootic (I don't get it!)
- A dragonfly has the lifespan of 24 hours.
- A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes!
- A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
- The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head it attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
- The flea can just 350 times its body lenth. That's the equivalent of a human jumping the lenth of a football field.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
- Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- Elephants cannot jump and are the only animals that cannot.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
- Starfish have no brains.
- Humans and dolphins are the only species who have sex for pleasure.
- The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.