· Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards
· Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants
· It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky
· Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die
· The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born
· A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
· The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant
· A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes
· Giraffes are unable to cough
· Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open
· A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve
· Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
· A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
· It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web
· A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body
· A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second
· Ants don't sleep
· Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves
· Camel milk does not curdle.
· Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats
· German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dogs.
· Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump
· It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg
· It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound
· No two spider webs are the same
· It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100
· In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.
· The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat
· The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
· The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
· The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
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