✠ The kangaroo’s ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos.
✠ A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.
✠ In Alaska it is illegal to whisper in someone’s ear while they’re moose hunting.
✠ The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” uses every letter of the alphabet.
✠ 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.
✠ Blue-eyed lemurs are one of two (non-human) primates to have truly blue eyes.
✠ 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.
✠ A moth has no stomach.
✠ A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
✠ On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.
✠ The average fox weighs 14 pounds.
✠ A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
✠ The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
✠ Snakes are carnivores, which means they only eat animals, often small ones such as insects, birds, frogs and other small mammals.
✠ ‘Jaws’ is the most common name for a goldfish.
✠ For every human in the world there are one million ants.
✠ During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
✠ To escape the grip of a crocodile’s jaw, push your thumb into its eyeballs-it will let you go instantly.
✠ Cows have one large stomach that is divided into four compartments to go through the different stages of digestion.
✠ It is much easier for dogs to learn spoken commands if they are given in conjunction with hand signals or gestures.
✠ Cats have lived with people for only 7,000 years.
✠ The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
✠ A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
✠ The American Kennel Club, the most influential dog club in the United States, was founded in 1884.
✠ Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
✠ The world’s smallest dog was a Yorkshire Terrier, which weighed just four ounces.
✠ Some male songbirds sing more than 2000 times each day.