Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.



A snail can sleep for three years.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but dogs only have about ten.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

All polar bears are left handed.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.

Ostriches can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.

The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.

The only dog that doesn't have a pink tongue is the chow.

Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.



Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.

On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colourful.

Deer have no gall bladders.

There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.

In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they're moose hunting.

The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.

The only mammals to undergo menopause are elephants, humpback whales, and human females.

The chicken and fish are the only animals that are eaten before they are born and after they die.

A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.



For every human in the world there are one million ants.

If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.

If you keep a goldfish. in a dark room, it will become pale!

Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet.

The average fox weighs 14 pounds.

The scientific name of the red fox is Vulpes vulpes.

Alligators can live up to 100 years.