A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second

Ants don't sleep

Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves

Camel milk does not curdle.

Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dogs.

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound

No two spider webs are the same. 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.

In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey.

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 fastest -moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of 0.0313 mph.

Swans are the only birds with penises

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

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

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."

A zebra is white with black stripes

The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin

The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake

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

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 a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone

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

If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms.

Insects consume 10% of the world's food supply every year

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

Cat's urine glows under a black-light!

The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1

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

Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.

Over 10000 birds a year die from smashing into windows

The Puffer Fish contains a poison that is 500 times deadlier than cyanide, yet it's a delicacy in Japan.

India has no rabbits in the wild only hares.