A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

All Polar bears are left-handed.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not

"playing."  They actually pass out from sheer terror.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,

dogs only have about ten.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Starfish haven't got brains.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its

body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally

without being hurt.

How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.

Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.

Bats always turn left when

exiting a cave.

A vulture will never attack a

human or animal that is

moving.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30

minutes.

An ant's sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.

An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it.

An elephant's trunk contains more than 50,000 muscles.

An Octopus has 3 hearts

Bats have only one baby a year.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly

backwards.

The world's termites outweigh the world's

humans 10 to 1.

There are one million ants for every person

in the world. Ants never sleep.

There are more chickens than people in the

world.

A chicken who just lost its head can run the length of a football field before

dropping dead.

Elephants communicate with each other from over 800 meters away. They do

this using extremely low frequency vocalizations that can't be heard by the

human ear.

Lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The blue whale has a heart the size of a small car and its blood vessal is so

broad, that a person could swim through it.

A strand of spider web may be stronger than an equal diameter of steel.

Eagles mate while they are flying. The eagle has sex while going up to 100

km/h in flight, and it is common for both eagles to hit the ground before they

finish.

A rat can last longer without water

than a camel.

The cockroach is the fastest animal

on 6 legs, covering a meter a

second.If it were human size, it

could run at speeds of 480 km

A fly always jumps backwards for a

quick getaway when you try to hit it.

Some frogs (e.g. the wood frog) and some turtles can stop their heart and

frost their tissues during winter and defrost after that.

Humans have about 5 million sensory olfactory cells to smell with. A small dog

has 125 million, and a dog the size of a German Shepherd has about 220

million. That’s why a dog can detect one part of urine in 6 million parts of

water! One part of sulfuric acid in 10 million parts of water!

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions

at the same time.

An albatross can sleep while it flies.

It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western

U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as

slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed

the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but

fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.

Giraffes not only have long necks, they also have enormous tongues, which

can be 18 inches long.

Kangaroos can jump up to 30 feet in one leap!

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