· The albatross can glide on air currents for several days and can even sleep while in flight.
· A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth.
· Bulls are colorblind, it is the motion of the cape which angers them.
· Giraffes rarely sleep more than 20 minutes a day
· Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
· Honeybees navigate using the sun as a compass, even when it is hidden behind clouds
· An ant can survive for up to two weeks underwater.
· Eel-skin wallets have been known to demagnetize credit cards
· In the magic world of seahorses it is the male who gets pregnant and has the babies.
· A blind Chameleon is still able to change colours to match its environment.
· Spiders inject their victims with a chemical that dissolves them. Then the spiders drink their lunch with their mouths which are soda straw-like.
· When hippos are upset, their sweat turns red.
· If you cut the head off a cockroach, it will continue to live for up to many more weeks.
· Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only female bites.
· A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds
· Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean
· Sharks never get sick, as far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer
· Sharks will eat anything. The only exception, is that they will not eat anything in the vicinity of where they give birth. This is because they are so stupid, this is the only way nature protects them from accidentally eating their own babies
· If a drop of liquor gets on a scorpion, it will immediately commit suicide with its own stinger
· The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight
· Female black widow spiders eat their husbands after mating. That's how they got that name
· All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature
· Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis
· About 70% of all organisms in the world are Bacteria
· Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal
· Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day
· To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers
· Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes
· Tiger Snake of Australia is the most poisonous snake in the world. 1 mg of its venom is enough to kill a man
· The common silkworm has eleven brains. It only uses five of them.
· A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
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