| A chameleon?s tongue is twice the length of its body. |
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| A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long! |
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| A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment. |
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| A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours. |
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| A group of frogs is called an army. |
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| A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! |
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| A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average! |
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| A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! |
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| A jellyfish is 95 percent water |
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| A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! |
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| A snail can sleep for three years. |
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| Animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike! |
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| Armadillos can get leprosy. |
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| Baby beavers are called kittens. |
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| Bats always turn left when exiting a cave! |
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| Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air. |
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| Bulls are color blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! |
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| Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! |
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| Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards. |
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| Contrary to popular belief, opossums, squirrels, chipmunks, and mice do not carry rabies. |
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| Despite the hump, a camel's spine is straight. |
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| Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Military to launch rockets! |
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| Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes. |
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| Given the opportunity, deer will chew gum and marijuana. |
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| Goats do not have upper front teeth. |
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| Iguanas have two penises! |
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| In just about every species of mammal, the female lives longer than the male. |
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| In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. |
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| Most of a hog's sweat glands are in its snout. |
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| Porcupines float in water! |
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| Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray. |
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| The average 1 1/4 lb. lobster is 7 to 9 years old. |
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| The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice! |
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| The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. |
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| The heart of a mouse beats 650 times per minute! |
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| The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs. |
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| The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times! |
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| The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born. |
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| The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out! |
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| The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. |
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| There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! |
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| There are more than one million animal species on Earth! |
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| Turtles can live for more than 100 years. |
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| Under extreme stress, some octopuses will eat their own arms. |
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