Sharks do not have bones but instead they are supported structurally with cartilage.
The Brown Tree snake of Guam has been know to shut down island power by gettting caught in the generators, thereby killing themselves. (Snake sucide !!!)
The electric catfish shocks smaller fish to death, only to eat the food their prey has swallowed but not digested.
The heart of a shark still beats strongly hours after its removed from the body.
A tiny crab (Hapalocarinus marsupialis) protects itself against enemies on the barrier reef, Australia BY IMPRISONING ITSELF FOR LIFE. Soon after birth it takes up its home in the fork of two coral branches which grow into a cage with openings just large enough to permit entrance of sea water carrying the crab's nourishment. ("Believe it or not")
The gecko (a type of lizard) is so named because it croaks that name repeatedly.
The Guillomot (a type of bird) lays a single egg among thousands of others of the same species, but she can always identify her own because no two eggs are ever a like. (Wounldn't that be neat if it were the same with kids. We would all look different.)
Squids and octopuses have 2 gills, 2 kidneys, and 3 hearts.
Earth worms have 5 hearts (Man, they're lucky. What chance do they have of dying from a heart attack?)
The owl monkey sleeps all day and feeds only at night.
Adelie Penquins drink only salt water 11 months a year. During their month of courtship they always change to fresh water- which they obtain by eating the antarctic snow.
The large-mouth black bass is known by 44 different names.
Globe sponge (tethya fissurata) looks like a golf ball. (I bet they don't hang around golf courses.)
The Jacana (a type of bird) of Africa, which can balance on floating leaves, has the biggest feet of any bird. Its feet are as long as its body.
Geographical lichens which encrust rocks in Germany's black forest were given that name because they looked like carefully drawn maps. (when lost in Germany pull over to the nearest gas station and ask for a lichen!)
The waterflea is not a flea at all. It is a minute crustacean-and THERE ARE 1,000,000 FEMALES FOR EACH MALE.
The snorkel snail while underwater breaths air through 2 tubes it extends to the surface.
The Butterfly Blenny always lays its egg in an empty sea shell.
The Sweet Fern caterpiller which feeds on sweet fern, looks exactly like the serrated leaves of the fern.
Cercopagis Tenera, a crustacean of the sea of Azon has a tail 6 times as long as its body.
The Eagle fish, which reaches a length of 7 feet and weight of 440 pounds, has a voice that sounds like the lowering of cattle. That's right. THE EAGLE FISH YELLS MOO!!
The belted wrasse (a type of fish) appears to be wearing a white belt. (That's it! I'm all ready a black belt:)
The Mallee bird of Australia leaves its eggs to incubate in a cavity filled with decaying vegetation-and regulary checks the temperature with its tongue.
The New Guinea starfish (Culcita novaeguineae)which has no arms, looks like an over stuffed pillow.
-The deepest swimmer in the sea is Bassogigas, a fish caught at a depth of 23,400 feet. (Man, that's deep!!!)
The blood of every mammal has a salt content exactly the same as that of the oceans, when the first mammals emerged millions of years ago.
A lily leaf caterpillar sews itself a coat by stitching together, with strands of silk, and 2 sections of a Lily pad.
Leopards are known to sometimes roll over on the ground near a herd of deer to make the deer curious. When the deer come to see what's happening, the leopard will strike.
,Leopards may eat dogs.
Man-eating leopards are more dangerous than man-eating tigers or lions. The record for for man-eating cats is a leopard of Rudraprang, which killed 125 people in 9 years before it was shot.
Leopards become man-eating when they are old or weak and need a slow moving prey, like man, or were raised on human flesh.
There have been attempt s to separate tigers into different species.
Sometimes tigers appear black. This is because while eating a large animal, they may become covered in blood, which, when dried, will look black like a black panther.
Tigers of India like to eat durian fruit. (Wow, so do I!)
When food is scarce, Tigers may eat frogs, lizards, and even crocodiles.
A hybrid, known as a "leopon" is offspring of a lion and leopard, bred in captivity.
Lions have learned to use their dew claw (a claw all cats have) as "toothpicks", and to dislodge meat caught in their throats.
APES WAGE WAR (just like us humans), against other ape tribes. One such account was the famous "4 years war". ("Believe it or not")
APES ALSO USE UTENSILS. They use sticks to pick up termites to eat.
After meals Polar bears clean themselves by washing in the water or rolling in the snow. (POLAR BEARS BATHS!!!)
Male walruses use their tusks to fight and to impress one another.
The Albatross (a type of bird) drinks seawater by filtering out the salt. (I wish I could do that.)
Lycotheustis diaiema, a squid has ultramarine blue eyes lined with 5 luminous spots which glow ruby red, blue, and white. (THE JEWEL OF THE SEA.)
Hemigrammus ocellifer (a type of fish) has red eyes that reflect the light, and a copper spot on its tail that acts as a rea reflector. (THE FISH WITH HEAD AND TAIL LIGHTS.)
The water-frog of Australia survives droughts as long as 18 months by absorbing so much water during rainy season that it looks like an orange.
The Myrianid worm multiplies by division. It breaks in half and the back section IMMEDIATELY grows a new head.
Elephants in the wild have been known to GET DRUNK IN THE WILD by eating fermenting fruit. These elephants can become alcoholics, who regularly eat fermenting fruit in an attempt to "escape their every day lives".
African bees (known as killer bees) if given the comb foundation of European bees, will chew the whole thing up and rebuild it in a smaller pattern, because killer bees are smaller.
Paths in the King penguin colonies lead to pools of water full of penguin bodies, just like a "PENGUIN GRAVE YARD". (Discovered in 1947)
Chocolate is extremly poisonous to dogs.
Killer whales have been known to capture seals (their prey) and play with them, like a ball. They throw them in the air and hit them with their tail fin, in a baseball like maner. When they are done with the unlucky seal they gently release them to shore to let them live another day. (Witnessed by National Greographic)
Hunting dogs in 16th century Spain were dressed in steel armor.
The trunk of an elephant is operated by 40,000 muscles.
The great Plam cockatoo has a gland on its back that emits a powder which water proofs its feathers. It uses one of its fluffy feathers as a powder puff.
