A rat can fall from a 5-story building without injury.
A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.
Just like people, mother chimpanzees often develop lifelong relationships with their offspring.
Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relatives the pocket mice, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air they breathe.
Each day, 100 or more whales are killed by fishermen.
Kangaroos usually give birth to one young annually. The young kangaroo, or joey, is born alive at a very immature stage, when it is only about 2 cm long and weighs less than a gram.
Electric eels are not really eels but a kind of fish. Although they look like eels, their internal organs are arranged differently.
As a rule, many birds generally lay fewer eggs in a clutch in the tropics, where the amount of daylight is shorter than in northern latitudes. It is in the northern reaches of the world that more summer food for birds is available as a result of the longer days.
Kittens are born both blind and deaf, but the vibration of their mother's purring is a physical signal that the kittens can feel - it acts like a homing device, signaling them to nurse.
Elephant herds post their own sentries. When danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as a half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted. how this communication takes place is not understood.
At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.
Kittens can clock an amazing 31 mph at full speed and cover about 3 times their body length per leap.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.
At birth, baby kangaroos are only about an inch long — no bigger than a large waterbug or a queen bee.
Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique prints. Koala prints cannot be distinguished from human fingerprints.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
At birth, the white whale is black.
Komodo dragons eat deer and wild boar.
Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range, one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.
At seven inches long, the Wilson's storm petrel is the smallest bird to breed on the Antarctic continent.
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