1. Ostriches can run faster than horses and the male ostriches can roar like lions.
2. Kangaroos use their tails for balance, so if you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it can’t hop.
3.Elephants can smell water up to 3 miles away. They are also one of the three mammals that undergo menopause. The other two being hump back whales and human females.
5.Polar bears have black skin. 4.Koala almost exclusively eat only eucalyptus leaves and nothing else.
6.On average there are 50000 spiders per acre in green grasses.
7.Beware an ant uprising! There are one million ants for every human in the world. These resilient creatures also never sleep and don’t have lungs.
8.Butterflies have two compound eyes consisting of thousands of lenses, yet they can only see the colours red, green and yellow.
9.You can tell a turtles gender by the noise it makes. Male grunt and female hiss.
10.You might want to thank a squirrel the next time you enjoy the shade of a tree. Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels that bury nuts and then forget where they hide them.
11.Squirrels can’t burp or vomit.
12.Pigs communicate constantly with one another; more than 20 vocalizations have been identified that pigs use in different situations, from wooing mates to saying I am hungry.