- One species of Jellyfish is immortal. It can go back to being a child after becoming an adult.
- A Snail can slumber for 3 years at a time.
- There are one million ants for every human.
- A Blue Whale weighs 3 times more than an elephant and is as lengthy as 3 greyhound buses.
- Octopus have 3 hearts.
- A bat can eat 1 thousand insects per hour.
- Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year.
- Wild dolphins call each other by name. “Oi, Flipper!”
- Elephants have a particular alarm call that means “human”.
- Dogs’ sense of smell is about 100, 000 times stronger than humans’. However, they have only one-sixth our number of taste buds.
- The extinct colossal penguin stood as tall as 2.03 metre basket ball player LeBron James.
- The male gentoo and Adelie penguins “propose” to females by giving them a pebble.
- Reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels.
- Honeybees can flap their wings 200 times per second.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside-down.
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat (is horny) and cannot find a mate.
- Cows can slumber standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
- A housefly hums in the key of F.
- The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it is enough to kill a person 150 times over.
- Polar Bears have transparent fur.
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So cool!