Beavers can hold their breath for over forty five minutes. The same amount of time Sven Goran Ericsson goes without showing any emotion.
A shark can re-grow an entire set of teeth in a little over a week.
A cat can see perfectly in the dark. Roughly six times better then a human - and they don't need carrots.
The common ant colony will have over five hundred thousand members. As will WAB very soon!
Ants never sleep at all.
Dragonflies fly faster then sixty miles per hour, but do observe the highway code at all other times.
Because they are immune to every known disease, a shark will never get sick - only of the taste of fish.
A female ferret will literally die if she goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
When exiting a cave, bats always turn left.
You will never hear the echo of a duck’s quack.
A chicken can travel as fast as nine miles per hour.
The largest chicken egg measured in at a whopping 31 cms around and was close to 12 oz.
Nine is the highest number of yolks found in one egg.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds, whilst it's daft mate attempted to cross the M25 (in rush hour)
A rat can go longer without water than a camel, then it begins to get the hump.
The hummingbird is the smallest bird on Earth. It weighs about one 28 grams.
Dolphins have been recorded as swimming 35 mph, but not in town centres.
A baby swan works for 24 hours to peck its way out of the shell.
Amphibians can only see in black and white, so they have no problems with newspapers.
A toad catches over 10,000 insects during one summer.
Fleas can kill dogs and cats if the infestation is not taken left to lay eggs and bite at will. Stray dogs and cats sometimes die because a flea infestation is uncontrolled.
Fleas will not use an animal that is dying as a host. Out of respect?
One flea can bite your pet over 400 times a daily.
The average life cycle of butterflies is about two weeks, though some species live only two days while a few species live up to nine months.
There are over 20,000 butterfly species in the world and 9,000,000 bicycles in Beijing (Katie Meluah)
The fear of frogs is called Ranidaphobia, the fear of toads is called Bufonophobia, and the fear of amphibians is called Batrachophobia.