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Cockroaches can live for nine days without their heads, at which point they die of starvation

Ants never sleep

When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.

When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.

No two spider webs are the same. Each spider has its unique web.

There are more than 900,000 known species of insects in the world.

Camel's milk does not curdle.

Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.

All porcupines float in water.

Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

A whale beats it's heart on average, every 6½ seconds

Sharks when reproducing, can have a litter of upto 70!

A duck's 'quack' doesn't echo

Cat urine glows when put under a black light

All polar bears are left handed!

Chickens have three sets of eyelids

There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.