- Giraffes and rats can live longer without water than camels
- More people are killed each year by bees than by snakes
- Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
- A cockroach will live nine days without it’s head, before it starves to death.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Starfish don’t have brains.
- Polar bears are left handed.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
- An ostrich’s eye is bigger that it’s brain.
- Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
- Porcupines float in water.
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
- Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
- Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
- More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in airplane crashes.
- Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
- Cat’s urine glows under a black light.
- A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
- To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs – it will let you go instantly.
- A crocodile can’t stick it’s tongue out.
- A shrimp’s heart is in it’s head.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- Rats and horses can’t vomit.
- Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
- Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
- Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.
- Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
- Guinea pigs and rabbits can’t sweat.
- The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.
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