Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span.
Skunks can shoot their bad-smelling spray only about two yards, but you can smell it up to two and a half miles away.
Mouse sex only lasts five seconds.
Elephants purr like cats do, as a means of communication.
Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails.
A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour.
Butterflies tastes with their feet.
An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendants.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows
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