Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
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To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
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If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
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Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
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A slug has four noses.
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Starfish don't have brains.
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Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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The lifespan of mammals is about 1 and a half billion heartbeats.
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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
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Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
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The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
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The only food that cockroaches wont eat are Cucumbers!
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