When they mate, a yak and a cow produce a dzo.
Goats produce cashmere.
A 'bitch' is more likely to bite you than a male dog.
A 'geep' is the resulting offspring of a sheep and a goat.
Bananas grow pointing upwards.
Giraffes can not swim.
The cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.
Hummingbirds can't walk.
A moth has no stomach.
Lobsters have blue blood.
Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
90% of the Vitamin C present in Brussel Sprouts are lost in cooking.
Oranges cease to ripen after picking.
More people are killed each year from bees than snakes.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel can
The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
Peanuts are used in the production of dynamite.
The blood of a grasshopper is not red, but white.
The daisy got its name from the corruption of the words ' Day's eye'.
Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
When a rabbit scratches its dowsets, it has itchy testicles.
Mexican jumping beans jump because of a moth larva inside the bean.
Only the male nightingale sings.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
The black widow spider can devour as many as twenty 'mates' in a single day.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
Goldfish can suffer motion sickness.
When young, Black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.
A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.
Giraffes are unable to cough.
The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.
Camels are born without humps.
Many male fish blow bubbles when they want to copulate.
Snails mate only once in their lifetime, but it can take up to 12 hours.
Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Baby eels are elvers.
A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.
An electric eel produces an average of 400 volts.
Spiders' webs are a traditional natural clotting agent, when applied to a cut they quickly stop the flow of blood.
The orang-utan's warning signal to would be aggressors is a loud belch.
Squid can commit suicide by eating their own tentacles.
Although Cleopatra was meant to have died after a bite from an asp, the species does not exist in Egypt.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Bees have 5 eyes.
Vampire Bats can hear sound frequencies which are over eight times higher than any picked up by the human ear.
The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during mating.
The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.
When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.
Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.
A sloth can move twice as fast in water as it can on land.
India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
Bulls can run faster uphill than they can (or want to) downhill, because of the bone structure of their legs.
99% of all life forms to exist on Earth are now extinct.
The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.
The aquatic animal, the Red Sponge, can be broken into a thousand pieces and still reconstitute itself.
Male cats have barbs on their genitals, which cause the females to cry out in pain on withdrawal.
St. Bernards, famous for their role as alpine rescue dogs, do NOT wear casks of brandy round their necks.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.
The nerve fibres in the squid are 500 times thicker than a humans'.
A shark must keep moving forward to stay alive.
Some snakes can take as long as twenty-four hours to copulate.
Japan's pampered Kobe cattle regularly get to drink beer.
Rhinoceros horn, when powered, is believed in some countries to increase a persons sexual potency.
An Anencephalous creature has no brain.