The whistling swan has more than 25,000 feathers on its body.
The largest known egg ever laid by a creature was that of the extinct Aepyornis of Madagascar. The egg was 9.5 inches long. It had a volume of 2.35 gallons.
The Cairn terrier is great at catching rats.
Pandas spend about 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
In Milwaukee during the 1900s, 12,500 horses in the city left an estimated 133 tons of manure and urine on the streets per year.
The white elephant is the sacred animal of Thailand.
The largest order of mammals, with about 1,700 species, is rodents. Bats are second with about 950 species.
The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
Parrots, most famous of all talking birds, rarely acquire a vocabulary of more than twenty words. However, Tymhoney Greys and African Greys have been known to carry vocabularies in excess of 100 words.
In one year, hens in America lay enough eggs to encircle the globe a hundred times.
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks almost 16 feet high.
The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches.
The cat was the symbol of liberty in ancient Rome.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English art writer and landscape painter, noted, "If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering, outspoken, honest fellow — but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
In Pakistan, goats are often sacrificed to improve the performance of the stock market.
The word "puppy" comes from the French poupee, meaning "doll."
The leech has 32 brains — 31 more than a human.
The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature.
Pigeons and hummingbirds have tiny magnetic particles in their heads that respond to the Earth's magnetic fields and are used for navigation.
In Russia, dogs have been trained to sniff out ore deposits that contain iron sulfides.
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