Lanolin, an essential ingredient of many expensive cosmetics, is, in its native form, a foul-smelling, waxy, tarlike substance extracted from the fleece of sheep.
Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
Atlantic salmon are able to leap 15 feet high.
Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year.
Elephants perform greeting ceremonies when a member of the group returns after a long time away. The welcoming animals spin around, flap their ears, and trumpet.
Australia's box jelly is the world's most dangerous jellyfish. Its toxin is more potent than cobra venom and can kill a person in minutes
Lions are the only truly social cat species, and usually every female in a pride, ranging from 5 to 30 individuals, is closely related.
Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.
Eleven chinchillas were brought from the Andes Mountains in South America in the 1930's. All chinchillas presently in North America are descended from these eleven chinchillas.
Baby beavers are called kits or kittens
Baby mink are born blind and remain sightless for a month.
Baby opossums — upon birth when they move to the mother's pouch — are smaller than honeybees. An entire litter can fit in a teaspoon.
A rhinoceros has three toes on each foot.
A robin has nearly 3,000 feathers.
A rodent's teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetable matter.
A shrimp has five pairs of legs.
A shrimp has more than a hundred pairs of chromosomes in each cell nucleus. Man has only twenty-three.
A single piranha, with its razor-sharp teeth, is still dangerous enough when out of water to rip off the flesh, or a finger or toe, from an unwary fisherman.
A skunk will not bite and throw its scent at the same time.
A snail speeding along at three inches per minute would need 15 days to travel one mile.
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