Animal Behavior Facts

Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.

Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!

If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white

Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.

One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Ants have two stomachs - one holds food for themselves, and the other is a 'social stomach' used to share food with other ants through regurgitation.

Most birds tilt their heads back when drinking water to let gravity help the liquid flow down their throat, but they swallow food using muscular contractions called peristalsis—the same mechanism humans use.

Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping to avoid drifting apart, forming groups called 'rafts' that can range from a few individuals to over a hundred.

The sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.

Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, blondes to brunettes.

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.

The province of Alberta, Canada is free of the common rat.

The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

Cows can easily walk up stairs, but find it incredibly difficult and generally avoid walking down them due to their anatomy and poor depth perception.

Elephants are terrified of Bees and actually have a special, distinct vocalization for “Run away the Bees are angry”

The Giant South African Earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch in thick.

The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.