- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.
- Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
- There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
- The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.
- A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
- Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
- Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the male ostriches can roar like lions.
- Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.
- Cows have best friends.
- Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.
- Rats laugh when tickled.
- Pigs’ orgasms last for 30 minutes.
- Dolphins have names for each other.
- Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails.
- If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!
- For every human in the world, there are one million ants.
- During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
- Ants never sleep. Also, they don’t have lungs.
- It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
- Koala bears almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.
- Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.
- Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent they can play pranks on each other.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
- A snail can grow back a new eye if it loses one.
- You can tell a turtle’s gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any mammal.
- A black panther is really a black leopard.
- Hippos can run faster than humans!
- The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
- Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
- A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
- Deer can’t eat hay.
- On average, cows poop 16 times per day!
- The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.
- Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
- The fear of animals is called zoophobia.