2. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal and can reach speeds up to 72mph.

3. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

4. Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.

5. An adult lion’s roar is so loud, it can be heard up to five miles away.

6. A lion feeds once every three to four days.

7. Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.

8. A white tiger can only be born when both parents carry the gene for white colouring.

9. Some wild tigers can eat up to 40 pounds of meat at a time, and not eat again for several days.

10. The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

11. A cheetah does not roar like a lion – it purrs like a cat (meow).

12. A cheetah can run 76 kilometers per hour (46 miles per hour) – that’s really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometers per hour (18 miles per hour).

2. Squirrels can’t remember where they hide half of their nuts.

3. Only male crickets can chirp.

4. A rabbit’s teeth never stop growing.

5. Alligators cannot move backwards.

6. Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.

7. The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use.

8. An okapi’s tongue can grow to be 17 inches long.

9. An owl’s eyes are bigger than its brain.

10. Salamanders breath through their skin.

11. The guanaco of South America, a cousin of the camel, has pads on its feet to keep its feet from burning on desert sand or freezing in mountain snow.

12. Foxes sometimes nip at the heals of cattle so the stomping of the cattle makes mice and other rodents come out of the ground, for the fox to eat.

13. Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood.

14. Whether an alligator is a male or female is determined by the temperature of the nest where the egg is hatched – 90 to 93 degrees will make it a male; 82 to 86 degrees will turn it into a female.

15. Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red light on its head and green lights down its side. All it needs to drive on the street is a turn signal.

16. You may have heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.

17. Skunks can shoot their bad-smelling spray only about two yards, but you can smell it up to two and a half miles away.

18. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

2. A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

2. The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm.

3. Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss.

2. Only one mammal can’t jump — the elephant.

3. The trunk of an elephant can hold up to two gallons of water.

4. The elephant is the national animal of Thailand.

5. In a day, an elephant can drink 80 gallons of water.

6. In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee.

7. Elephants have been known to learn up to 60 commands.

8. During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

9. An elephant’s trunk can hold 2.5 gallons of water.

10. An elephant’s tooth can weight as much as three kilograms.

11. An elephant in the wild can eat anywhere from 100 – 1000 pounds of vegetation in a 16 hour period.

12. An elephant can live up to the age of seventy, or in some cases even more.

13. Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.

14. An African adult elephant eats about six hundred pounds of food a day; that’s four percent of the elephant’s body weight!

2. There are no snakes in New Zealand.

3. The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one bite can kill twenty people or one elephant.

4. The fastest moving land snake is the Black Mamba, which can move up to 7 miles per hour.

5. The King Cobra has enough venom in its bite that it can kill up to 13 adults.

6. The Australian Brown Snake’s venom is so powerful that only 1/14,000th of on ounce is needed to kill a human being.

7. Taipan snakes have 50 times more toxic than a cobra snake.

8. Snake venom is ninety percent protein.

9. Snake is a delicacy in China.

10. Most snakes have six rows of teeth.

11. A snake charmer in Bangladesh once found 3,500 poisonous cobras and their eggs hidden underneath the floors of two suburban homes.

12. Sea snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the world.

2. Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.

3. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.

4. Squirrel Monkeys are the most common monkey in South-America.

5. Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.

6. Squirrel Monkeys move through trees by leaping.

7. Colobus monkey’s bushy tails, which often exceeds the length of their bodies.

8. Colobus monkeys have a long, black fur coat with a white stripe running down the sides of their backs to their tails.

9. Zanzibar is the only place where you will find the Kirk’s Red Colobus monkey.

10. The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.

11. The Spider Monkey offspring are dependent on their mothers for the first 2 to 3 years, with the females giving birth every 3 to 4 years.

12. Spider Monkeys will use all five appendages; arms, legs and tail, to scramble through trees.

13. Spider Monkeys have hook-like fingers, but no thumb, and the tip of their tail can support the weight of their entire body.

14. Spider Monkeys are very good climbers and are usually found in groups of around 30, often broken up into smaller sub-groups of around 3 or 4.

15. Groups of Snow Monkeys are primarily formed by adult females, there are roughly three time the number of adult females than there are adult males and young. 16. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

17. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

18. Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.

19. Gorilla’s have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.

20. Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10ºC.

21. The Old World monkeys include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World monkeys are exclusively arboreal. Some New World monkeys have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.

22. Monkeys are divided into two geographically separate groups – the New World monkeys of South America and the Old World monkeys, found in Africa and Asia.

23. Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

24. Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

25. Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.

26. Gorilla’s have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.

27. Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10ºC.

28. The Old World monkeys include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World monkeys are exclusively arboreal. Some New World monkeys have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.

29. Monkeys are divided into two geographically separate groups – the New World monkeys of South America and the Old World monkeys, found in Africa and Asia.

2. When the are in danger, kangaroos will beat the ground loudly with their hind feet.

3. Unlike other four legged mammals, kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

4. There is a certain species of kangaroo that is only 2.5 centimeters long when it is born.

5. A newborn kangaroo weighs approximately 0.03 ounces and is small enough to fit in a teaspoon.

6. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

7. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

8. Kangaroos are native of Australia.

9. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
 
10. A kangaroo can jump 45 feet!

2. Octopuses have 3 hearts.

3. A goldfish can live up to 40 years.

4. A starfish doesn’t have a brain.

5. Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.

6. The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!

7. Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.

8. Starfish have eight eyes – one at the end of each leg.

9. The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.

10. The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds.

11. The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow.

12. A Giant squid’s eye can be as big as a basketball.

13. A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

14. Some fish have eyes that are the same size as their stomach!

15. The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.

16. Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marion’s tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).

17. The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.

18. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins.

19. Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.

20. Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface.

21. Starfish can have up to 16 arms!

22. The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!

23. Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

24. The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.

25. When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black “ink”.

26. Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.

27. The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown.

28. The world’s largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

29. A newly hatched fish is called a “fry.”

30. At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

31. Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites.

32. Fish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds per square inch. They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder.

33. One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. They have growth rings just like trees. These are called circuli. Clusters of them are called annuli. Each annuli show one year.

34. The world’s largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.

35. The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.

2. The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.

3. Pixie, a Siberian Husky, gave birth to 7 puppies, one of which was bright green.

4. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, much like humans use fingerprints.

5. All dogs are the descendant of the wolf. These wolves lived in eastern Asia about 15,000 years ago.

6. About 30% of American admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away.

7. A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space aboard the Russian spacecraft.

8. Dogs can’t see colors. They’re color blind.

9. Dogs sweat only through their tongues.

10. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed… or is that paws?!

11. The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour.