A Cicada passes eggs through its ovipositor.
Cats are feline, dogs are canine, and sheep are ovine.
A pigs snout is called a gruntle.
When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a dzo.
A cat's whiskers are called vibrissae.
Goats produce cashmere.
The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the bumblebee
A 'bitch' is more likely to bite you than a male dog.
A turkey's furcula better known as a wishbone.
A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
The typical housefly cruses at 8 km/hr.
The chemical pectin, found in ripe fruit, causes jam to set when cooling.
In 1876, Sir Henery Wickham transported 70 000 Rubber tree seeds from Brazil to Kew Gardens in London.
The compound carotene gives the carrot its colour.
Bananas grow pointing upwards.
Giraffes can not swim.
Kiwi eggs, when not completely white, are tinged with green.
The cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.
Cows have 4 stomachs.
The flying fish has been known to glide up to 90 metres.
A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
A moth has no stomach.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.
1 kg of lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.
Oranges cease to ripen after picking.
More people are killed each year from bees than snakes.
The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
Midges beat their wings about 1000 time every second.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.
The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
When food is short a ribbon worm can eat 95% of its own body weight, and still survive.
The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
Golden toads are so rare that a biological reserve has been specifically created for them.
The walking catfish can live on land.
The white of an egg is the albumen.
96% of a cucumber is water.
The daisy got its name from the corruption of the words ' Day's eye'.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy testicles.
Goat milk is used to produce Roquefort cheese.
Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.
A 6 pound sea-hare can lay 40,000 eggs in a single minute.
In 1978 the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation estimated that 'all the tea in China' amounted to approx. 356,000 tonnes.
The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
Only the male nightingale sings.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.
When young, Black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
The Barbary Apes in Gibraltar are well protected by the resident British. The tradition is, when the apes leave the rock, the British will not be far behind.
Gorillas often sleep for up to fourteen hours a day.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
A 2 year old horse has 6 incisors.
The last of a cat's senses to develop is sight.
The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
According to the United Nations F.A.O. yearbook 1991, Australia had a population of 17,800,000 people compared to 162,774,000 sheep [ 9.25 : 1 ], and New Zealand had 3,400,000 people compared to 57,000,000 sheep [16.75 : 1].
In relation to its size, the ordinary house spider is eight time faster than an Olympic sprinter.
A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of its body.
Sloths spend 75% of their lives asleep.
During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.
About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.
Camels are born without humps.
Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to copulate.
Crocodiles are colour blind.
Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.
Dogs are colour-blind.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Baby eels are elvers.
Worms are hermaphroditic, they have both sets of sexual organs on their bodies.
Whales increase in weight 30,000,000,000 times in their first two years.
There are more insects in the world than all other animals together.
On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.
Spiders' webs are a traditional natural clotting agent, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood.
The orang-utan's warning signal to would be aggressors is a loud belch.
About a quarter of the people bitten by dogs seem to be bitten by German Shepherd dogs.
The Emu gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich.
Squid can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
A cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 2 seconds.
Although Cleopatra was meant to have died after a bite from an asp, the species does not exist in Egypt.
The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
An Elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
The largest shark ever caught with a rod was just less than seventeen feet long.
Cyanide is present in apple pips, but only in small doses.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Bees have 5 eyes.
A species of earthworm in Australia grow up to 3 metres in length.
The mullet fish only turns red after death.
The Goliath frog of West Africa is nearly three feet long.
To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies which are over eight times higher than any picked up by the human ear.
The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during mating.
The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
The smallest trees in the world are Greenland dwarf willows.
A myrmecologist studies ants.
The original source of the dye 'sepia' was the cuttlefish.
Dogs sweat through the pads of their feet.
Only male canaries can sing.
The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.
When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
The only wild camels in the world are found in Australia.
At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.
Crocodiles carry their young in their mouths.
Tarantula's can survive 2.5 years without food.
It has been estimated that there are something like twenty-three million cats in the U.S.
A sloth can move twice as fast in water as it can on land.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now extinct.
The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.
A dog has elbows.
Whales can't swim backwards.
Penguins can jump over 6 feet.
Lions have been exported to Africa by Windsor Safari Park in England.
An Elephant has the world's largest penis, weighing about 27 kg
Crocodiles are responsible for over a thousand deaths a year by the Banks of the Nile.
The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.
The Moa bird of New Zealand, which became extinct four hundred years ago, was over ten feet tall.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
The hippopotamus is born under water.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Male cats have barbs on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy round their necks.
The average porcupine has about 30,000 quills.
Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.
The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times thicker than a humans'.
A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.
Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to copulate.
Polar bears can run as fast as 40 km/h.
A python is capable of devouring a pig whole.
The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two hundred times a second.
Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink beer.
Cats were a sacred animal in Ancient Egypt, and when they died,people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect.
Rhinoceros horn, when powered, is believed in some countries to increase a persons sexual potency.
A mosquito has 47 teeth.
An Anencephalous creature has no brain.
Within a pride of lions, 90% of the hunting is done by the females.
A large whale needs more than 2 tonnes of food a day.
Whales must move their entire body
to change their line of sight.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches!
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it's fur!
Cat's urine glows under a black-light!
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist!
Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny!
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee!
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons!
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!
The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!
One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!
The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!
It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!
7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem!
5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem!
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!
The state of Florida is bigger than England!
It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants!
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow!
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones!
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
America once issued a 5-cent bill!
You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime! Wow!
Here are some people with strange names. (some of these specific facts have not be verified)
Ure A. Pigg (Portland, Oregon)!
Ima Hogg (Houston, Texas)!
Ima June Bugg (Chicago, IL)!
Eura Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
Ima Fisch (Charlotte N.C)!
Imenna pause (Indianapolis,indiana!
Serious Misconduct (Welwyn, England)!
General Error (Pueblo, Colorado)!
Dr. Safety First (Tulsa, Oklahoma)!
Pearl Harbor (Birmingham, Alabama)!
Honor Roll (Birmingham, Alabama)!
E. Pluribus Eubanks (San Francisco, CA)!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, silver, and month!
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)
166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!
85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it’s own weight each year.
A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A capon is a castrated rooster.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but other monkeys can't.
A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A dragonfly has a life span of twenty-four hours.
A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.
A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years, disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master, and then died.
All clams start out as males; some decide to become females at some point in their lives.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
Ants are social insects and live in colonies which may have as many as 500,000 individuals.
Ants don't sleep.
Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with varicolored yolks.
Camel milk does not curdle.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Catfish have 100,000 tastebuds.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus Zoo, in Ohio, in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
Dragonflies have a life span of 24 hours. They are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
Each day in the US animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.
Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz.
Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
George Washington’s favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon’s favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.
Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.
In 1888, an estimated 300,000 mummified cats were found at Beni Hassan, Egypt. They were sold at $18.43 per ton, and shipped to England to be ground up and used for fertilizer.
In cats, the calico and tortoiseshell coats are sex-linked traits. All cats displaying these coats are female... or occasionally sterile males.
In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12 th teaspoon of honey.
Infant beavers are called kittens.
It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100.
It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump.
Macaroni, Gentoo, Chinstrap and Emperor are types of penguins.
Mockingbirds can imitate any sound from a squeaking door to a cat meowing.
Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.
Mosquitoes are the common vector for malaria, encephalitis, yellow fever and dengue fever.
Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
Neutering a cat extends its life span by two or three years.
No two spider webs are the same.
Only full-grown male crickets can chirp.
Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
Pet parrots can eat virtually any common "people-food" except for chocolate and avacados. Both of these are highly toxic to the parrot and can be fatal.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
Rats can't throw-up.
Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Snails produce a colorless, sticky discharge that forms a protective carpet under them as they travel along. The discharge is so effective that they can crawl along the edge of a razor without cutting themselves.
Snakes are immune to their own poison.
Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
Swans are the only birds with penises.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.
The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff - comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.
The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.
The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
The dachshund is one of the oldest dog breeds in history (dating back to ancient Egypt.) The name comes from one of its earliest uses - hunting badgers. In German, Dachs means "badger," Hund is "hound."
The elephant, as a symbol of the US Republican Party, was originated by cartoonist Thomas Nast and first presented in 1874.
The English Romantic poet Lord Byron was so devastated upon the death of his beloved Newfoundland, whose name was Boatswain, that he had inscribed upon the dog's gravestone the following: "Beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."
The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.
The fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.
The first house rats recorded in America appeared in Boston in 1775.
The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.
The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.
The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.
The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
The male penguin incubates the single egg laid by his mate. During the two month period he does not eat, and will lose up to 40% of his body weight.
The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
The Pacific Giant Octopus, the largest octopus in the world, grows from the size of pea to a 150 pound behemoth potentially 30 feet across in only two years, its entire life-span.
The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History houses the world's largest shell collection, some 15 million specimens. A smaller museum in Sanibel, Florida owns a mere 2 million shells and claims to be the worlds only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
The theobromine in chocolate that stimulates the cardiac and nervous systems is too much for dogs, especially smaller pups. A chocolate bar is poisonous to dogs and can even be lethal.
The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.
The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
The world record frog jump is 33 feet 5.5 inches over the course of 3 consecutive leaps, achieved in May 1977 by a South African sharp-nosed frog called Santjie.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
There are around 2,600 different species of frogs. They live on every continent except Antarctica.
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny.
When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.