The koala is the world’s fussiest eater and feeds
uniquely on eucalyptus leaves.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
In Alaska, it is legal to shoot a bear - but you'll break
the law if you wake up a bear to take its photograph.
Americans own 55 million dogs, and 60 million cats.
Adult fleas can live for up to 2 years during which time
the female can lay up to 1,200 eggs.
Elephant seals are air-breathing mammals, but they can hold
their breath for up to two hours while diving.
Apart from humans the only land animal that cries is the
elephant.
The longest snake is the reticulated python, which can
reach over 33 ft.
In Lousiana, you can be jailed for ten years for stealing
an alligator.
Dragonflies
have the largest eyes and sharpest eyesight of any insect. Each eye is
made up of more than 30,000 separate rod-like units.
Desert rats can copulate 122 times an hour.
One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to
death on the set by a raging elephant.
A
scientist at Michigan State University has calculated that the
production of a single hens egg regquires about 120 gallons of water, a
loaf of bread requires 300 gallons, and a pound of beef 3,500 gallons.
Great Whites can swim
at up to 25 mph. They must swim continually or they would sink, as they
don't have a swim bladder to keep them afloat like a bony fish.
The collective name for a group of frogs is an "army of
frog"; in the case of their warty cousins, it’s a "knot of
toads".
Strands of spider web are stronger than steel wire of the
same thickness.
The collective name for a group of frogs is an
“army of frogs”; in the case of their warty
cousins, it’s a “knot of toads”.
Dolphins
are the only other animals besides humans that get pleasure out of sex.
They are also the only other animals that have sex for reasons other
than reproduction.
Contrary to popular
belief, biblical Jonah was swallowed by a Great White Shark, not a
whale. It is thought that a shark may have been landed with a man's
body inside, prompting the myth to arise.
Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar
bears do.
Most
scientists agree that Great White Shark attacks on humans often stem
from territorial aggression because of a perceived invasion of their
space, and are usually non-predatory in nature.
Naked mole rats are the only hairless mammals.
One 15 foot great white was found with 200 plus crabs in
its stomach.
An armadillo can walk under water.
House mice are able to drop vertically down 12 feet without
injury.
Goldfish history can be traced back over 1500 years to
Ancient China.
Only 2% of male red deer are seriously injured in their
antler-rattling contests.
An
American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog
owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave
messages on an answering machine while away.
Frogs may be hypnotised by placing them on their back and
gently stroking their stomach.
The
African driver ant Dorylus lives in colonies of up to twenty-two
million workers. Their combined mass is more than fifty kilograms, and
they feed off and protect a territory of a massive fifty thousand
square metres.
Twenty-eight species of anemone fishes are known, along
with 10 species of anemones that act as hosts.
The average body temperature of a sparrow is 105.8 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Sheep's milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.
A female donkey's milk is closest to human milk.
Stone-aged people tamed dogs to help them track game.
A seagull can drink salt water because it has special
glands that filter out the salt.
The difference in weight between a 'newborn' caterpillar
and the fully grown larva is typically 1000-fold or even more.
Snake venom is ninety percent protein.
The hippopotamus has the world's shortest sperm.
A rabbit's teeth never stops growing. They are kept worn
down by gnawing on food.
Scientists
estimate that there are currently 1.4 million animal species known to
science; with possibly as many as 30 million on the planet.
The only two mammals to lay eggs are the platypus and the
echidna. The mothers nurse their babies through pores in their skin.
Kittens can clock an amazing 31 miles per hour at full
speed, and can cover about three times their body length per leap.
The tuatara lizard's metabolism is so slow they only have
to breathe once an hour.
Male bees will try to attract sex partners with orchid
fragrance.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
The octopus's testicles are located in its head.
The tuatara lizard of New Zealand has three eyes - two in
the center of its head and one on top.
It takes the deep-sea clam 100 years to grow to a length of
one-third inch.
The Venus flytrap can eat a whole cheeseburger.
The porcupine's love for salt often leads the animal to
roadways or walkways where salt has been sprinkled to melt the ice.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years
before they became extinct.
The rare Hawaiian monk seal has been known to dive to about
1,650 feet.
The
female green turtle sheds tears as she lays her eggs on the beach. This
washes sand particles out of her eyes and rids her body of excess salt.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could
have over a million descendants.
The color a head louse will be as an adult can depend on
the color of the person's hair in which it lives.
The kangaroo and the emu are the two animals found on the
Australian coat of arms.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours
of sleep a day.
Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that
some tribes use it for lantern fuel.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea
lions have external ears and testicles.
Sharks
can go up to at least 6 weeks without feeding. The record for a shark
fasting was observed in an aquarium with the Swell Shark, which did not
eat for 15 months.
The shell of an egg constitutes 12% of its weight.
In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their
eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.
The Sanskrit word for 'war' means 'desire for more cows'.
Using its web-like skin between its arms, an octopus can
carry up to a dozen crabs back to its den.
Electric Eels can reach up to 2 metres in length and larger
specimens can generate 500 volts of electricity.
The zorilla is the smelliest animal on the planet. Its anal
glands can be smelled from a half mile away.
Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow
drifts.
Bats can eat from one-half to three quarters their weight
per evening.
It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way
out of its shell.
Certain fireflies emit a light so penetrating that it can
pass through flesh and wood.
The
porcupine's love for salt often leads the animal to roadways or
walkways where salt has been sprinkled to melt the ice. They will lick
and gnaw on anything containing salt, such as saddles, canoe paddles
and axe handles.
There are more species of fish than mammals, reptiles and
birds combined.
When angered, the Tazmanian devil turns pinkish red.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
When cornered, the horned toad shoots blood from its eyes.
The walking catfish of Florida can stay out of water for a
full 80 days.
The Australian Brown Snake's venom is so powerful that only
1/14,000th of on ounce is needed to kill a human being.
The tuatara's metabolism is so slow they only have to
breathe once an hour.
According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a
maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
A group of goats is called a trip.
A baby platypus remains blind after birth for 11 weeks.
Sharks can generate about six and a half tons per square
inch of biting force.
Sharks can live up to 100 years.
Dogfish sharks are named for their tendency to attack their
prey as a pack of wild dogs would.
Found in Argentina, the ornate horned frog can eat an
entire mouse with one swallow.
The average Polar Bear stands about 8ft tall.
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
A blue whale's tongue is so large that fifty people could
stand on it.
The temperature of the saltwater crocodile's egg will
determine the sex of the newborn crocodile.
Tuna
swim at a steady rate of nine miles per hour for an indefinite period
of time - and they never stop moving. Estimates indicate that a 15 year
old tuna travels one million miles in its lifetime.
The dodo, extinct
less than 100 years after being discovered by the Dutch in 1598, was
not a prolific species. The female laid just one egg a year.
Using their swiveling
ears like radar dishes, experiments have shown that dogs can locate the
source of a sound in 6/100ths of a second.
It takes 11 truckloads of wood to make a proper funeral
pyre for a full-size elephant.
More
than a third of the field mice in the Kesterton National wildlife
refuge near Los Banos, California have both male and female
reproductive organs.
In Central America, a
scientist caught over 500 different species of insects by sweeping a
net through the air fewer than 2000 times.
Tiny woolly bats, in West Africa, live in the large webs of
colonial spiders.
In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a
hunting license.
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
The
female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has
built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and
completely rebuild it in order to win the affactions of the female.
A species of Australian dragonfly has been clocked at 36
mph.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey: killing such a
timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
Japan is the largest exporter of frog's legs.
In Michigan, USA, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a
fire hydrant.
Sea sponges are used in drugs for treating asthma and
cancer.
Flamingo tongues were a common delicacy at Roman feasts.
A full grown giraffe's neck can weigh as much as 500
pounds.
Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America
originate from Florida.
The Weddell seal can travel under water for seven miles
without surfacing for air.
Due
to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the
night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
An adult giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can
decapitate a lion.
The flounder swims sideways.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
Sharks
can be dangerous even before they are born. Scientist Stewart Springer
was bitten by a sand tiger shark embryo while he was examining its
pregnant mother.
In the US, it is reported that the 5 most popular dog
tricks are - Sit, Paw, Roll Over, Speak and Lie Down.
Dolphins jump out of the water to conserve energy. It's
easier to move through the air than through the water.
It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.
Almost every known dog except the Chow and the Shar Pei has
a pink tongue.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Tunas
will suffocate if they ever stop swimming. They need a continual flow
of water across their gills to breathe, even while they rest.
Unlike most female animals, the female rice rat is the one
that searches for and pursues a mate.
Pekingese
dogs were sacred to the emperors of China for more than 2,000 years.
They are one of the oldest breeds of dogs in the world.
Desert plants, like cactus, developed pointy spines as
protection from animals.
Sharks
apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is
known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
The Hirudo leech lays its babies within a cocoon; the
Amazon leech carries its babies on its stomach - sometimes as many as
300.
The
declawing of a pet cat involves surgery called an onychectomy, in which
the entire claw and end bone of each toe of the animal are amputated.
Platypuses aren't the
only egg-laying mammals on earth. Echidnas, which resemble a cross
between a Hedgehog and Anteater, also lay eggs and produces milk for
its young.
A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single
night.
A baby beaver stays with its parents for a period of two
years.
The longest recorded life span of a camel was 35 years,
five months.
An average city dog lives approximately three years longer
than an average country dog.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
Desert snails can stay in their shell for up to three
years.
The
male fox will mate for life and, if the female dies, he remains single
for the rest of his life. However, if the male dies, the female will
hook up with a new mate.
Flamingos can live up to 80 years.
Sharks
sometimes eat other sharks. For example, a tiger shark might eat a bull
shark, a bull shark might eat a blacktip shark and a blacktip shark
might eat a dogfish shark.
The common mousetrap was invented by the same guy who
invented the machine gun — Hiram Maxim.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land
than there are human beings on the entire earth.
A
rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's
back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized
cars around on his back.
The optimum depth of
water in a birdbath is two and a half inches. Less water makes it
difficult for birds to take a bath; more makes them afraid.
Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the
ground.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
During
the 1982 Falklands war British pilots reported that penguins toppled
over backward while gazing at the planes. British navy pilots were then
banned from flying low over penguin colonies. It led to a UK government
study of the penguin-toppling effect. For seventeen days two
helicopters were flown from varying directions and heights over the
penguins. The result? Penguins do not topple over while gazing at
aeroplanes.
Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.
The
fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those
of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Police detectives have used snapping turtles to help them
locate dead bodies.
No pearls of value are ever found in North Amercian
Oysters.
Mountain goats are not really goats at al. They are small
antelopes.
Only 4% of the lost cats that enter U.S. animal shelters
are returned to their caregivers.
There
is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to
the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A
black panther is really a black leopard.
Racehorses have been known to wear out new shoes in just
one race.
A cuckoo has four toes on each foot.
Mice will nurse babies that are not their own.
The
Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were
named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae
- "Island of Dogs."
Mongooses were
brought to Hawaii to kill rats. This plan failed because rats are
nocturnal while the mongoose hunts during the day.
Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk
backwards.
When
a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule,
but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a
hinny.
Just like people, mother chimpanzees often develop lifelong
relationships with their offspring.
According to one study, plant and animal species are
becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an
ailurophobe.
Orange
and lemon rinds are offensive to cats. A light rubbing of orange peel
on furniture will discourage your cat from using it as a scratching
post.
The largest pig on record was a Poland-China hog named Big
Bill, who weighed 2,552 lbs.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs
only have about ten.
The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion,
which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
The mating call of a male toadfish, who are underwater, is
so loud that it can be heard by humans above water.
Cheetahs
make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp.
The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
The male penguin
incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period
he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a
24 hour period.
The Kinkajou's tail is twice as long as its body. Every
night it wraps itself in its tail and uses it as a pillow.
As
a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively
big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of the
brain.
If a male cat is both
orange and black it is (besides being extremely rare) sterile. To have
both the orange and the black coat colors, the male cat must have all
or part of both female X chromosomes. This unusual sex chromosome
combination will render the male cat sterile.
Kangaroo rats never
drink water. Like their relative the pocket mouse, they carry their own
water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and
the air they breathe.
If you fill a
standard 750ml wine bottle with live hornets, their angry buzzing will
resonate at precisely the right frequency to shatter the glass.
The giant cricket of Africa enjoys eating human hair.
Nationwide, grandparents annually spend an average of
$195.24 on their companion animals and $178.68 on their grandchildren.
Fido, a name often given to pet dogs, means faithful in
Latin.
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during
its lifetime.
Dogs
that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old
English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy
poodle.
If a cricket were the size of Mount Rushmore, it could jump
to the moon.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by
Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in
at one ounce.
The female blue crab can lay up to one million eggs in a
day.
The
term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman
times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat
to that of the sun from July3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high
temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days
of the dog."
Most parrots are left-handed.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to
6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
The grizzly bear is capable of running as fast as the
average horse.
In
the past 60 years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather
correctly 28 percent of the time. The rushing back and forth from
burrows is believed to indicate sexual activity, not shadow seeking.
Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD
number of whiskers.
Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is
penguin urine.
When subjected to an electric current of at least 50 volts,
a cat's tail always points toward the north.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
The
theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous
systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar
is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
Snakes do not urinate. They secrete and excrete uric acid,
which is a solid, chalky, usually white substance.
The fruit flys dna sequence is 180 million bases long,
whilst a humans is three billion.
Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep through the winter.
Sometimes up to 1,000 of them will coil up together to keep warm.
A mother dingo regurgitates food for her puppies.
A
mature male gorilla is called a Silverback. This refers to the
silver-colored hair covering his back, which occurs when he’s
about
10-12 years old.
There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.
A 20 inch jack rabbit adult can leap 20 feet in a single
bound.
A baby grey whale drinks enough milk to fill more than
2,000 bottles a day.
The distance between an alligator's eyes, in inches, is
directly proportional to the length of the alligator, in feet.
The
female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries
to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If no pigeon is
available, her own reflection in a mirror will suffice.
All dinosaurs walked on their toes.
The honey badger can withstand hundreds of African bee
stings that would kill any other animal.
In their lifetime, house cats spend approximately 10,950
hours purring.
A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a
chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and
the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
Julius Caeser, Henri II, Charles XI and Napoleon all had
ailurophobia, a fear of cats.
The number of human ova necessary to repopulate the world
could fit into a chicken egg.
Cats are attracted to automobile antifreeze because of its
sweet taste.
Ireland
has only about half the number of animal species that Britain has,
including no snakes or toads (although there are some frogs).
There are 15 puppies and 45 kittens born for every human in
Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
The
Saw-Scaled Viper is thought to cause tens of thousands of deaths
annually in Africa and Asia. They don't have the most lethal snake
venom but they are numerous and aggressive.
A squirrel has no
color vision. It seesonly in black and white. Every part of its field
of vision, however, is in perfect focus, not just straight ahead, as
with man.
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of
water in a single day.
When
a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for
too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.
Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, that is rarely
visible. If it can be seen, it could be an indication of ill health.
Camel's hair brushes are not made of camel's hair. They
were invented by a man named Mr Camel.
In 1740 a cow was found guilty of sorcery in France and
publicly hanged.
A newborn Chinese water deer is so small that it can almost
be held in the palm of the hand.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight
each year.
A butterfly has to have a body temperature greater than 86
degrees to be able to fly.
The tsetse fly infests 36 African countries and a total of
9-10 million square kilometres of land.
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.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has
been hit by a lightning strike.
About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat
insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys.
The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.
Squirrels are immune to rabies.
Unlike a frog, a toad cannot jump.
All racehorses in the U.S. celebrate their birthday on
January 1st.
The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it
sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.
Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever
been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent
than that of a rattlesnake.
Lassie
was played by several male dogs, despite the female name, because male
collies were thought to look better on camera. The main "actor" was
named Pal.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild
golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over
eighteen months, headless.
Octopus and squid are thought to be the most intelligent of
all invertebrates.
During
warm weather hippopotamus's secrete sweat that is pink. This substance
not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs
with varicolored yolks.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea when it is born.
The
female dairy goat is a doe; the male, a buck; the young, kids; and a
castrated male, a wether. Their life span is eight to twelve years.
In 1888, an estimated
300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold
at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for
fertilizer.
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives
birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
In
the 1800's cats were used to deliver mail. In 1879, in Belgium 37 cats
were used to deliver mail to villages, however they found that the cats
were not disciplined enough to do this.
In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids
can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
More than 99.9% of all the animal species that have ever
lived on earth were extinct before the coming of man.
Asian tree frogs build nests in trees over water. When
their tadpoles hatch, they drop directly into the water.
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as
many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been
domesticated.
The world's oldest known captive goldfish, Tish, died
peacefully at home in his tank at the age of at least 43 in 1999.
It
was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog
throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its
mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's
contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever
been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or
are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
On June 20th, 1782, the United States Congress made the
"American Eagle" the national emblem of the United States.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day
than in any other weather.
The 'Silverback' gorilla is 30 per cent taller and almost
twice as heavy as the females in the group he dominates.
The
pom-pom cut was originally developed to increase the Poodle's swimming
abilities as a retriever. The haircut allowed for faster swimming but
the pom-poms were left to keep the joints warm.
Before the enactment
of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City
to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog
excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black
Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
When
ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so
that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
There are more than
100 million dogs and cats in the United States. Americans spend more
than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.
Snails produce a
colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them
as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl
along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by
salivating. They sweat through the pads of their feet.
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
Lewis
and Clark traveled with a 150-pound Newfoundland named "Seaman." This
pooch was a respected member of the expedition team and his antics were
included in the extensive diaries of the famous explorers.
'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish.
For
Stephen King's "Cujo" (1983), five St. Bernards were used, one
mechanical head, and an actor in a dog costume to play the title
character.
A cat uses its
whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The
whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the
precise width of any passage.
The Venus flytrap takes less than half a second to slam
shut on an insect.
Brazil has the most species of mammals (524), fresh water
fish, insects and parrots of anywhere.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostate glands.
The
world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3
consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed
frog called Santjie.
A 7-year study, which
concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused
by rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog
peels off several times a year with new growth.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of
dog.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Though
human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to
smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times
better than man.
When the Black Death
swept across England one theory was that cats caused the plague.
Thousands were slaughtered. Ironically, those that kept their cats were
less affected, because they kept their houses clear of the real
culprits, rats.