Slugs have four noses.
All polar bears are left handed.
In a life time, the average person eats eight spiders.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
Giant squid have the largest eyes in the world.
All porcupines float.
The world record for sitting in a cage filled with scorpions is 21 days.
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
Humans and dolphins are the only mammals that have sex for pleasure.
Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
It only takes monkeys 10 seconds to mate!
An octopus's testicles are located in its head.
A duck's quack does not echo, and scientists have no idea why.
A pig's orgasm lasts half an hour.
Mozzarella cheese is made from water buffalo's milk.
Lions can mate over 50 times a day.
The giant sloth sleeps for 17 hours a day, yet dreams for only 70 minutes of that time.
Left undisturbed, a detatched porcupine quill will work its way into human flesh at a rate of 2.5cm a day.
When toads vomit, their reflexes are so strong that they bring up not only their stomach contents but the stomach itself!
Cats can make over 100 individual vocal sounds, whereas dogs can only make 10.
An ant removed from its ant hill and released several kilometres from home will find its way back by its sense of smell.
If you scaled up a barnacle to human size, its penis would measure the height of Nelson's column!!
Hippopotamus milk is bright pink.
The world's smallest insect is the fairy fly, only 0.2mm long.
Cheetahs can go from a standing position to 45mph in two seconds.
The Anopheles mosquito that carries malaria is believed to have been responsible for half of all human deaths, not including wars and accidents, since the Stone Age.
Dogs have 17 muscles in their ears so they can turn them in several directions to pick up sounds.
Chamelons and sea-horses can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time which enables them to spot predators more easily.
When feeling nervous, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles which then grow back later.
A giraffe can last longer without water than a camel.
A crocodile has so much acid in its stomach that it can digest steel.
The female black widow spider mates with up to 25 partners a day, eating the male afterwards.
Soon after birth, crab spiders start eating their mother's limbs. They then survive on them for several weeks.
A blue whale's tongue is the same size and weight as a full-grown African elephant.
The emperor moth starts life with a large tongue, but the time it has reached maturity, its tongue has shrunk away to nothing. Unable to feed, the moth eventually dies of starvation.
A rodent's teeth never stop growing .
Crocodiles can grow up 50 new sets of teeth in a lifetime.
Cockroaches can hold their breath for 40 minutes.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Polar bears can smell a human from 20 miles away.
Starfish haven't got brains.
It's impossible to lead a cow up stairs, but not down stairs.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.
Tarantulas can survive for up to 2 years without eating.
Mother tarantulas kill 99% of the babies they hatch.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
The house fly hums in the middle octave key of F.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.
Ants can survive for 2 weeks underwater and they always fall onto their right side when intoxicated.
Great Danes come from Germany, not Denmark.
 The Angora rabbit is a variety of domestic rabbit bred for its long, soft hair. The Angora is one of the oldest types of domestic rabbit, originating in Ankara, Turkey, along with the Angora cat and Angora goat. The rabbits were popular pets with French royalty in the mid 1700s, and spread to other parts of Europe by the end of the century. They first appeared in the United States in the early 190...
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 Tarsiers are prosimian primates of the genus Tarsius, a monotypic genus in the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. The phylogenetic position of extant tarsiers within the order Primates has been debated for much of the past century, and tarsiers have alternately been classified with strepsirrhine primates in the suborder Prosimii, or as the ...
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 The Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semi-aquatic mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. It is the sole living representative of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of r...
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 The Star-nosed Mole (Condylura cristata) is a small North American mole found in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. It is the only member of the tribe Condylurini and the genus Condylura.
It lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates, aquatic insects, worms and molluscs. It is a good swimmer and can forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. Like other moles, ...
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 The Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator) is a tamarin allegedly named for its similarity with the German emperor Wilhelm II. The name was first intended as a joke, but has become the official scientific name.
This tamarin lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in the west Brazilian states of Acre and Amazonas.
The fur of the Emperor Tamarin is predominantly grey c...
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 I know there are already a million tributes to Steve, but he was an awesome, wonderful man and I wanted to create my own. Bindi's speech touched my heart so I managed to incorporate it into my video, I hope you all enjoy.
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