Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them!

• Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing!
• Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke!
• Strange but true: a giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck as a man.
• Here’s one for the fish fans: Goldfish lose their color if kept in dim light. Just like humans, they need sunlight to keep their pigment.
• This could come in handy before you pack for summer hols: Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color..
• The world’s fastest swimmer is the sail fish, this speedy fish can achieve speeds of 75mph

• Did you know that dog nose prints are as unique as human finger prints and can also be used to identify them!
• Here’s a spider fact I bet you didn’t know – tarantulas can live for over 2 years without eating a single thing!
• Cows from different regions have different “moo” accents. No joke!
• Strange but true: a giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck as a man.
• Here’s one for the fish fans: Goldfish lose their color if kept in dim light. Just like humans, they need sunlight to keep their pigment.
• This could come in handy before you pack for summer hols: Mosquitos are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color..
• The world’s fastest swimmer is the sail fish, this speedy fish can achieve speeds of 75mph

• Just like humans, British cows moo in accents specific to their region.
• All polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 10,000 years ago.
• A newborn giant panda weighs less than a cup of tea.
• A hammerhead shark can be rendered completely immobile for 15 minutes by turning it over and tickling its tummy.
• Squirrels can remember the hiding places of up to 10,000 nuts.
• Ants nod to each other as they pass.
• Almost any domestic cat can run faster than Usain Bolt.

• Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.
• Horses and cows sleep while standing up!
• Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36m in length. Longer than the height of the Tower of London!
• Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle. Wowsers
• Instead of bones, sharks have a skeleton made from cartilage.
• Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.
• Bet you thought the rhinoceros horn was made of bone? Wrong! It’s actually composed from compacted hair.

• Africa petfact – the hippotomus is considered the most dangerous animal. In Africa it is responsible for more human deaths than Lions, Snakes or Crocodiles
• Dogs have a remarkable sense of smell, they are capable of differentiating odors in concentrations nearly 100 million times lower than humans can.
• The average life span for a dog is around 10 to 14 years.
• An anteater is nearly 6 feet long yet it’s mouth is only about an inch wide and it manages to fit in a whopping 42 teeth!
• Female dolphins are called cows, males are called bulls and young dolphins are called calves. We can’t work out dolphin/cow connection either!
• A group of tigers is known as an ‘ambush’ or ‘streak’.
• Kangaross can’t fart! #loweringthetone

• The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!?
• The heaviest domestic cat on record isa staggering 21.297 kg
• Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not infact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode! t
• Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication of dogs could have occurred more than 15,000 years ago
• The most popular breed of dog in the world by registered ownership is the Labrador.
• The Spitting Spider is too impatient to wait and catch it’s prey in a web, it goes out and spits it’s sticky web when it sees something tasty
• Octopuses have no bones and squeeze themselves though spaces as small as the size of their eyeball.

• The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. Haven’t you heard!?
• The heaviest domestic cat on record is a staggering 21.297 kg
• Despite the urban myth, uncooked rice will not in fact expand in a birds stomach causing it to explode!
• Although experts often disagree, there is scientific evidence which shows that the domestication of dogs could have occurred more than 15,000 years ago!
• The most popular breed of dog in the world by registered ownership is the Labrador.
• The Spitting Spider is too impatient to wait and catch it’s prey in a web, it goes out and spits it’s sticky web as soon as it sees something tasty!
• Octopuses have no bones and squeeze themselves though spaces as small as the size of their eyeball!

• Particularly greedy vultures are able to eat so much that they become too heavy to fly!
• Did you know that the very cute Yorkshire Terrier were originally bred to hunt rats in factories!
• No two zebras have the same stripes!
• The firefly is actually a beetle not a fly!
• There are over 500 million domestic cats in the world compared to around 400 million domestic dogs!
• Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day!
• A group of cats is called a clowder, a male cat is called a tom, a female cat is called a molly!

• The kiwi bird from New Zealand lays eggs up to half its own weight. Ouch
• The African mudpuppy, or waterdog, is in fact not a dog at all. It’s a salamander (amphibian) so named for emitting a high-pitched squeaking sound reminiscent of a dog’s bark.
• We’re not sure where the nurse shark got it’s name but something even more fascinating about this fish – they like to to take their daily rest in large piles of up to forty sharks!
• The feathery flightless ostrich’s muscular legs are powerful enough to kill man and lion alike.
• Neil Armstrong wasn’t actually the first guy on the moon, it was actually the rhesus monkey who first made that big step for primate-kind
• Imagining this made us giggle – the shaggy, nocturnal sloth bear feeds itself by sucking ants through a gap in its front teeth.
• Despite being much feared, the tarantula is actually harmless to humans with a venom weaker than that of a bee’s sting.

• All polar bears are left-handed. Or left-pawed should we say!
• Fish communicate by rasping their teeth, OR far more weirdly by using their swim bladder to create sounds!
• Crocodiles may be pretty fearsome beasts but it’s physically impossible for them to stick out their tongues. Take that crocodiles *sticks out tongue menacingly*
• Did you know that dalmatians are the only breed of dog to suffer from gout the poor things!
• Before it reaches sexual maturity an Eel is called an elver. Elvers were once a staple in coastal dweller’s diets. Yummy.
• The impala can jump 10 feet in the air when threatened. That’s 2 feet more than the men’s high jump world record!
• One of the best animal names we think – the Jesus Christ lizard. Named for its miraculous abilities to run over water.