When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning!
Kangaroos can't walk they only jump.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
When first born a shrimp is a male and gradually evolves to a female.
When born, the white whale is black.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
The bird that lays the largest egg in relation to its own size is the kiwi.
When a mouse is first born its skin is transperant and you can see milk flowing as it drinks.
Worms can grow a new tail if it is cut off.
A hippo can outrun a human.
A bumble bee can pull 300 times its weight.
Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the bible and cats are not metioned once,
By the time you say 3,000 puppies, 3,000 puppies are born in the US.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. MYTH The quack does echo, but it is usually too quiet to hear. When you want to hear an echo, you usually make a very loud noise to make sure the reflection can be heard. But a duck quacks too quietly, so the reflection is too quiet to hear.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1.
Elephants can't jump. Every other mammal can.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.( I always fell on my face)
Polar bears are left handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any other animal.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day. (Real Quickies, They should talk to the pig)
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.(thankfully)
Cows milk gives 8 in 10 people coronary heart disease.
When pressured for grazing space, kangaroos have been known to kill competing sheep.
Cows sleep only 3 hours a day.
Sloths sleep up to 20 hours a day and get attain by eagles a lot because of it.
One third of all land spices are beetles.
Aardvarks are the only ant-eaters with teeth.
Over 50% of a elephants diet becomes waste.
Camels can survive in the desert without drinking for almost 3 months.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Cat night vision is 6 times better than human night vision.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
Dogs mouths are 200 times more cleaner then human mouths.
Rats can't vomit - that's why rat poison works. Explanation - Rats can't vomit for several related reasons:
(1) Rats have a powerful barrier between the stomach and the esophagus. They don't have the esophageal muscle strength to overcome and open this barrier by force, which is necessary for vomiting.
(2) Vomiting requires that the two muscles of the diaphragm contract independently, but rats give no evidence of being able to dissociate the activity of these two muscles.
(3) Rats don't have the complex neural connections within the brain stem and between brain stem and viscera that coordinate the many muscles involved in vomiting.
Jaws is the most common name for Goldfish in the U.K.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The parrots intelligence is comparable to a 5 year old child.
If a wolf gets its leg caught in a trap, it will chew it off.
On new years in Spain they throw a goat off a church.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Polar bears are left handed.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.- Butterflies taste with their feet. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
While both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually mate November to mid-December. Female reindeer retain their antlers until after they give birth in the spring. Therefore, according to every historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer, every single one of them, from Rudolph to Blitzen - had to be a girl. We should've known. Only women would be able to drag a fat man in a red velvet suit all around the world in one night and not get lost.
A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.
A shrimp's heart is in their head.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
The shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but dogs only have about ten.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again!
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
Porcupines float in water!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.
A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.
A whale's penis is called a dork.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Crickets hear through their knees.
Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all have two penises.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes.
Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more than 500 years before the house cat.
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
