Dolphins swim in circles while they sleep with the eye on the outside of the circle open to keep watch for predators. After a certain amount of time, they reverse and swim in the opposite direction with the opposite eye open.
An ostrich may weigh as much as 300 pounds. Its intestinal tract is 45 feet long.
Domesticated turkeys (farm-raised) cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Ducks will lay eggs only in the early morning.
An ox is a castrated bull. A mule is a sterile cross between a male ass and a female horse.
Due to a retinal adaptation that reflects light back to the retina, the night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.
Ancient Egyptians believed that "Bast" was the mother of all cats on Earth. They also believed that cats were sacred animals.
During the mating season, male porcupines bristle their quills at each other and chatter their teeth in rage before attacking. All porcupines at this time become very vocal: grunting, whining, chattering, even barking and mewing at each other.
Antlers and horns are not the same. Horns grow throughout an animal's life and are found on both the male and female of a species. Antlers, composed of a different chemical substance, are shed every year.
Duroc is one American breed of hardy hogs having drooping ears – it was allegedly named after the horse owned by the hog's breeder.
Arabian horses have one less vertebra in their backbones than other horses.
Arctic terns found in North America and the Arctic migrate each year as far south as Antarctica and back, a round trip of over 18,000 miles. Theirs is probably the longest migratory flight.
A pig is a hog — but a hog is not a pig. "Hog" is a generic name for all swine. Per hog-raising terminology, a pig is a baby hog less than ten weeks old.
A plaice, a large European flounder, can lie on a checkerboard and reproduce on its upper surface the same pattern of squares, for camouflage.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
A python can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a 6-month period.
A quarter horse gets its name from its speed in running the quarter-mile.
A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a race.
A rarity in birds, geese are among the very few in which the family stays together at the end of the breeding season. Parents and the young raised during the summer establish strong family bonds and do not break up for about a year. In the fall, geese migrate in flocks that contain other family units, and each family stays together on the wintering grounds.
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