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The Animal Kingdom
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8 miles away.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.
Starfish have eight eyes--one at the end of each leg.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are
on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
In his book "The Insects", naturalist Url N. Lanham reports that the aphid reproductive cycle is so rapid that the females are born pregnant.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
You can tell a turtle's sex by the noise it makes. Males grunt, females hiss.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
The starfish is the only animal that can turn it's stomach inside out.
The elephant is the only mammal that is unable to jump.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can
throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is
dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses its
forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of
geese in the air is a skein.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of whales is called a pod.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A group of larks is called an exaltation.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
A group of frogs is called an army.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds that can see the color blue.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
