A snail can have about 25,000 teeth.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.  

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.  

A whale's heart beats only nine times a minute.  

A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation 

An elephant can smell water three miles away.

Armadillos can be house broken.  

At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.  

Americans spend more annually on cat food than on baby food.  

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.  

It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.  

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.  

A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables

A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.  

Lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.  

A kangaroo can hop thirty feet at once.  

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.  

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.  

A jellyfish is 95 percent water

A hippo can run faster than a man.  

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.  

A crocodile can't move his tongue.

A crocodile does not chew his food, just swallows it whole 

A crocodile will eat other crocodiles sometimes 

A crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth 

A cat uses his whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.  

In Egyptian times, the penalty for killing a greyhound was equivalent to that of killing a man 

Domesticated cats are never mentioned in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times, lions 55 times 

There are 701 types of pure breed dogs 

A cockroach can live for nine days without its head.  (And so can Keith Richards!)

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living 

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.  

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time 

The heaviest cat ever recorded was 46 lbs.  

Cats are the only animal that walk on their claws, not the pads of their feet.  

In ancient Egypt, entire families would shave their eyebrows as a sign of mourning when the family cat died.