Animal Facts

The males of some species (including bees, baboons, rats, squirrels,scorpions, mice, and spiders) create a “mating plug” after sex which prevents other males from having sex with the same female.

If an insect intrudes into a beehive, honey bees can amass and vibrate their bodies together. The heat this creates literally cooks the insect intruder to death.

The Star Nosed Mole is the fastest eating mammal in the world.
Using its fleshy tentacles, it can eat a meal of worms in 227 milliseconds.

Iguanas, Koalas, Snakes and Komodo dragons all appear to have two penises. To clarify, though, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.) This organ is known as a hemipenes.

Cockroaches break wind every 15 minutes. Even after they die they carry on releasing methane gas for another 18 hours.

The Mountain Devil, a lizard like creature native to Australia, never drinks: it absorbs tiny drops of dew through its skin.

An Owl can see a mouse 50 metres away in light no brighter than a candle flame.

The Ghost Moth can whistle through it's tongue.

The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.


A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day

Snakes don't urinate. They excrete uric acid, which is a solid chalky usually white substance.

If a human has two small toes longer than their big toes,they are genetically considered a fish.