- 75% of wild birds die even before they reach their first birthdays.
- Hippopotamuses secrete red sweat whenever they are upset.
- Hippos have stomachs that are ten-feet long.
- Hippos are the animals that can be considered �bullet-proof� because their skin is 1 � inch thick.
- Sharks do not get sick as they are immune to diseases.
- Dolphins are the second most intelligent animals. They can be trained to perform certain tricks.
- The top speed of a racing pigeon in flight is 110mph.
- A bison can jump as high as 6 feet off the ground.
- Some snails live on branches in trees.
- The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.
- The honey badger can withstand hundreds of bee stings that would otherwise kill another animal.
- The word "moose" comes from the native Algonquian Indian word meaning "twig eater".
- An armadillo can walk under water.
- On average, a typical dairy cow lies down and stands up about 14 times a day.
- The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
- Before the fur trade had started in Canada, it was estimated that there were over 6 million beavers.
- A rabbit is not able to vomit.
- One of the most dangerous insects in the world is the common housefly. They carry and transmit more diseases than any other animal in the world.
- The Great White Shark can grow to be more than twenty feet long and can weigh approximately 4,000 pounds
- Any animal that has skin hair or fur can get dandruff, but in animals it is called "dander."
- A leech has 32 brains
- Armadillos breed in July, but get pregnant in November after delaying implantation. This allows the young to be born during the spring when there is an abundance of food
- Tarantulas can live up to 30 years
- Vampire bat saliva has been responsible for many advances in research into stroke recovery.
- Crabs have very small hairs on their claws and other parts of their body to help detect water currents and vibrations
- The biggest bug in the world is the Goliath Beetle which can weigh up to 3.5 ounces and be 4.5 inches long.
- When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
- Goats do not have upper front teeth.
- Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates.
- On average, a beaver can cut down two hundred trees a year.
- The fastest shark is the "Shortfin Mako," which can swim as fast as sixty miles per hour.
- The flatulation from domesticated cows produces about 30% of the methane on this planet.
- A slug has four noses.
- Rats have been sent into space aboard American, Chinese and Russian spacecraft.
- An adult sheep can eat between 1 to 4 kg of food per day.
- Cattle can produce up to 180 liters of saliva in one day.
- Dolphins hear by having sound waves transmit through their skull to their inner ear region.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
- A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.
- Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
- Panthers are known as black leopards, as they are the same species of leopard. If looked at closely, black spots can be seen on a panther.
- True spiders always have organs for spinning silk known as spinnerets.
- A species of dolphin is born naturally blind in the Indus and Ganges rivers in South Asia. These dolphins have a highly sophisticated sonar system and swim on only one side of their body/
- An oyster can change its gender.
- Polar bear livers contain so much Vitamin A that it can be fatal if eaten by a human.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.
- Polar bears are excellent swimmers. They have been known to swim more than 60 miles without a rest.
- The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.
- Some dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour.
- Every single hamster in the United States today comes from a single litter captured in Syria in 1930.
- Wood frogs can be frozen solid and then thawed, and continue living. They use the glucose in their body to protect their vital organs while they are in a frozen state.
- An orca whale can hold its breath for up to 15 minutes.
- There are more than 2,400 flea species in the world.
- There are no two zebras that have stripes that are exactly the same.
- The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
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