❆ We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp.
❆ Deer have no gall bladders.
❆ Alligators can live up to 100 years.
❆ A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
❆ There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill six cats!
❆ Jungle bears live up to thirty years of age while captive bears (which have been imprisoned by humans) can live up to 47 years.
❆ Only polar bears are completely carnivorous while all other bears are omnivores i.e. both animal and plant eaters.
❆ The claws of the sun bears are the largest. Apart from this, their tongue is also the longest, which reaches up to 9 and a half inches.
❆ The front paws of the bear's feet are bigger than the hind paws.
❆ Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
❆ Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 liter bottles.
❆Bears have skin folds. The smaller layer keeps it warm while the larger layer protects its skin and the smaller layer of skin from water.
❆ Hippos can run faster than humans!
❆ Bears are very intelligent creatures. If a hunter has put any bait to hunt them, then the bears understand it well and eat the bait carefully.
❆ A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
❆ Lonomia obliqua is the world’s deadliest caterpillar.
❆ The most poisonous fish in the world is the stone fish.
❆ Canis lupus lupus is the scientific name for a grey wolf.
❆ Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
❆ Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins, whales, and other water going creatures will drown if kept underwater too long.
❆ By counting the small rings in the teeth of a bear with the help of a microscope, its age can be estimated.
❆ A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
❆ There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.
❆ An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
❆ The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
❆ A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
❆ An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
❆ A black panther is really a black leopard.
❆ In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
❆ The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
❆ A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
❆ The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan hounds.
❆ Ants never sleep. Also they don’t have lungs.
❆ The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
❆ In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.
❆ A group of owls is called a parliament.
❆ The smell of a skunk can be detected by a human a mile away.
❆ At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long – no bigger than a large water bug or a queen bee.
❆ The most dogs ever owned by one person were 5,000 Mastiffs owned by Kubla Khan.
❆ Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws.
❆ The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
❆ Baby horses can walk and run after just a few hours of being born.
❆ Deer can’t eat hay.
❆ An anteater is nearly 6 feet long, yet its mouth is only an inch wide.
❆ A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
❆ The only dog that doesn’t have a pink tongue is the chow.
❆ Apple and pear seeds contain arsenic, which may be deadly to dogs.
❆ The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
❆ Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 B.C.