The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump

The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue

A jellyfish is 95 percent water

When opossums are playing 'possum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.

It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

Smartest dogs: 1) Border Collie; 2) Poodle; 3) Golden Retriever;

Dumbest dog: Afghan

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again

A whale's penis is called a dork.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave

Reindeer like to eat bananas.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

Bulls are colour blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what colour it is be it red or neon yellow

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue

Polar bears are left handed.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, more than any other animal.

The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.

A cockroach will live nine days without it's head. The only reason it doesn't live longer is it's unable to eat.

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. (thankfully)

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

There is a worm which lives under the eyelid of the hippopotamus, and feeds off the animals 'tears'.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds The glass cat-fish is almost totally transparent.

The ordinary house-fly beats its wings nearly two hundred times a second.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

Baby whales are born tail first.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by sharks.

Turkeys often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately many drown as a result.

There are as many rats in Britain as there are people.

The only animal with four knees is the elephant.

Crickets hear things through their knees.

A chicken in New Zealand once laid three hundred and sixty-one eggs in the space of one calendar year.

Starfish can turn their stomachs inside out.

Fried mice were once used to cure smallpox in Britain.

Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.

In California, it is illegal to kill or threaten a butterfly.

300,000 Israeli cows have been issued with identity cards.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

You can hold an alligators mouth shut with one hand.

A mosquito has forty-seven teeth.

A chimpanzee fooled the art world when his paintings were not only displayed in galleries and bought by collectors, but became the subject of learned critical argument.

There are something like 100,000 cats on the payroll of the British Civil service.

A butterfly has 12,000 eyes.

Penguins can leap over six feet in the air.

Moths have neither mouths nor stomachs.

Snails only mate once in their entire life, but it can take up to twelve hours for them to complete.

All porcupines float in water.

The chaffinch cannot sing anything original, it can only imitate the songs of other birds.

When the bearded vulture is hungry and can't find any dead prey, it knocks suitable victims off cliffs.

The stripes of a zebra are white, not black.

20% of all road accidents in Sweden involve a moose.

There is a type of parrot in New Zealand that likes to eat the rubber strips that line car windows.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

It seems that goldfish actually get seasick every now and again.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

The eye of a giant squid is larger than a person's head.

You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than in any other weather.

Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.

An elephant has the world's largest penis. It weighs on average sixty pounds.

In France in 1740, a cow was found guilty of sorcery and hanged.

You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.

The original name given to a butterfly was the 'flutterby'.

Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.

Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.

The Arctic tern flies to the Antarctic and back every year.

An octopus has three hearts.

On average, elephants sleep for about two hours a day.

Camel-hunting is illegal in Arizona.

The female ants are the ones who do all the work.

Australian earthworms can grow up to ten feet in length.

Only female mosquitoes bite.

Horses can sleep standing up.

The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

The male silkworm moth can smell a female over a distance of up to five miles.

When an octopus becomes upset, it may eat itself.

Crocodiles kill about 2,000 people each year.

Dolphins have been used to guide stranded whales back to sea.

Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.

Mosquitoes have teeth.

Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.