- An Aldabra tortoise can drink through its nose?
- The volume of one ostrich egg is the equivalent of 2 dozen chicken eggs?
- Spider monkeys have no thumbs – just four fingers on each hand?
- A rhino’s horn is made up of matted strands of keratin – which are very similar to hair?
- A snake smells with its tongue?
- The gestation period for an elephant is a whopping 22 months?
- A baby giraffe is 6 feet tall when it is born?
- There are no bones in an elephant’s trunk?
- An ostrich only has 2 toes on each foot?
- An elephant’s tusks are actually its front teeth?
- No two zebras have the same stripe pattern – they are as unique as fingerprints?
- Bison are the largest North American land animals?
- Alligators often eat snails?
- A pelican cannot fly with its pouch full of fish (it would be too top-heavy)?
- A giraffe’s tongue is 15 inches long?
- Baby macaws are blind and have no feathers when they hatch?
- Snakes cannot blink their eyes?
- A giraffe has the same number of neck vertebrae as a man or a mouse (seven)?
- A lion can eat about 85 pounds of meat at one meal, and that could sustain him for a week?
- The ostrich egg is the smallest egg in relation to body size laid by any bird?
- Snakes never chew their food; they swallow everything they eat whole?
- Humans share 97% of their DNA with chimpanzees?
- A pelican’s pouch can hold about 2.5 gallons of water?
- Lions scavenge food from other carnivores nearly as often as they kill food for themselves?
- Pound for pound, chimpanzees are roughly 8 times stronger than humans?
- Rhinos shape their horns by rubbing them on favorite objects (logs, rocks, etc.)?
- Most birds have a very poor sense of smell?
- The prominent stripes of a zebra may help camouflage him within a large group – their individual outlines get lost in a sea of stripes?
- An elephant has only one large tooth in each quarter of its jaw?
- No other animal has skin-covered, bony horns like the giraffe family?
- Parrots use their feet to eat and to grab onto objects, like humans use their hands?
- Female alligators will carry their newly hatched babies to the water in their mouths?