on Animals:
1. All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
2. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
3. The Albatross has a wing span of up to 14 feet and only needs to land once every couple of years to breed. They can travel hundreds of thousands of miles each flight. An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
4. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
5. During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
6. Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
7. Mosquitoes are attracted to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
8. As a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of the brain. <-- So does humans o.O?
9. If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celcius degrees.
10. A cockroach breaks wind every 15 minutes. <---another reason to hate them
11. If a shark doesn't continually swim, it will sink.
12. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
13. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
14. Ants are said to never cross a chalk line. So if you've got ants, draw a line on the floor with chalk or wherever the ants are coming in.
15. The male fox will mate for life and, if the female dies, he remains single for the rest of his life. However, if the male dies, the female will hook up with a new mate. <--- HAHAHA.
16. There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard.
17. Aphids are born pregnant without the benefit of sex. Aphids can give birth 10 days after being born themselves.
