Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any mammal

Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers

Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes

Tiger Snake of Australia is the most poisonous snake in the world. 1 mg of its venom is enough to kill a man

The common silkworm has eleven brains. It only uses five of them.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot

Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet

A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched

Flamingos get their pink color from the shrimp they eat. The more shrimp they eat the deeper pink they become

Water based mammals like dolphins and whales swish their tails up and down. Only fish move them sideways

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away

Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating

Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music

Dolphins don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to do it

Ostriches stick their heads into the sand to find underground drinking water

Pigeons can be killed by feeding them uncooked rice, either coz their stomach can't handle the carbohydrates or it swells in their throats and chokes them

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

To make just one pound of honey, bees must collect nectar from over two million seperate flowers

Cuban bee hummingbird is the smallest hummingbird, only 57 mm (2¼ in) long and half of this is tail and bill. It weighs less than 2 g and is the smallest warm-blooded animal

The color white in the animal kingdom means 'danger' or 'caution'. On safari in Africa it is recommended not to wear white because it can scare away the animals

Cockroach can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs, covering a meter a second

The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature most likely to survive a nuclear war

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot

Did you know that a giraffe can kill a lion with one kick

A sea urchin walks on the tips of its teeth

Humans are the only animals to sleep on their backs

Perfume is frequently made from - among other things- a slippery, musky substance called Ambergris which is vomited up by certain species of whales from time to time

The female angler-fish weights up to half a ton. The male, however, is only a few millimeters long, and spends his whole life attached to her nose

The Panda bear is expected to become extinct by about 2040, barring a drastic change of events

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can fly backwards

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die

The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born

A crocodile can't move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.

The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes

Giraffes are unable to cough

Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open.

A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve.

Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web.