1. Although male seals are called bulls and female seals are called cows, their young are quite illogically called pups.
3. Crickets hear through their knees, cicadas hear through their stomachs.
6. If called upon to swim, elephants can move through the water surprisingly well.
7. Dolphins sleep with on eye open.
8. You can tell a fish’s age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk.
9. The common garden Spider has about six hundred silk glands and can lay up to six hundred eggs at one time.
10. Domestic cats spend only one third of their lives awake, compared with their owners who spend only one third of their lives asleep.
11.Ducks only lay eggs early in the morning.
12. The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.
13. Horses can fall asleep standing up.
14. If they are near water raccoons often wash their food before they eat it.
15. The humming bird can only use its feet for perching. It is not able to place them one in front of the other in order to walk.
16. Moths cannot eat because they have neither mouths nor stomachs.
17. Monarch butterflies migrate more than 3000 kilometers every year.
18. The grasshopper’s legs are able to walk on their own even when detached from the insect’s head and body.
19. Horses do not have a collar bones.
20. Although the frigate bird lives on fish it is unable to swim or land on the water.
21. Cockroaches have remained unchanged on earth for about 250,000,000 years.
22. A fly’s eye is designed with over 4000 facets which enable it to see an enemy approaching from almost any direction without moving.
23. The so-called Prairie dog is a rodent.
24. Sea otters have not one, but two coats of fur.
25. A Kiwi’s beak is so sensitive that it can detect the presence of worms deep in the soil.
26. The only animal able to turn its stomach inside out is the starfish.
27. An owl cannot see in total darkness.
28. Birds are sometimes able to set their own broken wings.
29. Even though they look so fierce gorillas never kill in order to eat. They are strict vegetarians.
30. Every night a barn owl will eat more that its own weight in food. It later disposes of the pieces it can’t manage to eat.
31. A Yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow and makes a grunt like a pig.
32. There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.
33. All the ants that you see working frantically in ant armies are female.
34. The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.
35. The Guinea-pig is not a pig and does not come from Guinea. It is a South American rodent.
36. A zebra has white stripes not black ones.
37. A cat can draw its claws back into sheaths in its paws.
38. The silkworm is not a worm. It is a caterpillar.]
39. Bears climb telegraph poles in search of honey. The humming of the wires confuses them into thinking that there are bee hives on top of the poles.
40.Whereas dogs wag their tails as a sign of welcome, cats wag theirs as a sign of warning.
2. Experiments with ants have shown that they are capable of lifting stones fifty times their own weight and pulling loads three hundred times their own weight.
3. Crickets hear through their knees, cicadas hear through their stomachs.
4. Asses, horses and Zebras all clean themselves in an unconventional way- they roll in dust.
5. Rats can survive without water longer than camels.
5. Rats can survive without water longer than camels.
6. If called upon to swim, elephants can move through the water surprisingly well.
7. Dolphins sleep with on eye open.
8. You can tell a fish’s age by counting the rings on its scales in the same way that you can estimate the age of a tree by counting the rings in the trunk.
9. The common garden Spider has about six hundred silk glands and can lay up to six hundred eggs at one time.
10. Domestic cats spend only one third of their lives awake, compared with their owners who spend only one third of their lives asleep.
11.Ducks only lay eggs early in the morning.
12. The sailfish can swim faster than a horse can gallop.
13. Horses can fall asleep standing up.
14. If they are near water raccoons often wash their food before they eat it.
15. The humming bird can only use its feet for perching. It is not able to place them one in front of the other in order to walk.
16. Moths cannot eat because they have neither mouths nor stomachs.
17. Monarch butterflies migrate more than 3000 kilometers every year.
18. The grasshopper’s legs are able to walk on their own even when detached from the insect’s head and body.
19. Horses do not have a collar bones.
20. Although the frigate bird lives on fish it is unable to swim or land on the water.
21. Cockroaches have remained unchanged on earth for about 250,000,000 years.
22. A fly’s eye is designed with over 4000 facets which enable it to see an enemy approaching from almost any direction without moving.
23. The so-called Prairie dog is a rodent.
24. Sea otters have not one, but two coats of fur.
25. A Kiwi’s beak is so sensitive that it can detect the presence of worms deep in the soil.
26. The only animal able to turn its stomach inside out is the starfish.
27. An owl cannot see in total darkness.
28. Birds are sometimes able to set their own broken wings.
29. Even though they look so fierce gorillas never kill in order to eat. They are strict vegetarians.
30. Every night a barn owl will eat more that its own weight in food. It later disposes of the pieces it can’t manage to eat.
31. A Yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow and makes a grunt like a pig.
32. There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.
33. All the ants that you see working frantically in ant armies are female.
34. The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.
35. The Guinea-pig is not a pig and does not come from Guinea. It is a South American rodent.
36. A zebra has white stripes not black ones.
37. A cat can draw its claws back into sheaths in its paws.
38. The silkworm is not a worm. It is a caterpillar.]
39. Bears climb telegraph poles in search of honey. The humming of the wires confuses them into thinking that there are bee hives on top of the poles.
40.Whereas dogs wag their tails as a sign of welcome, cats wag theirs as a sign of warning.
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