Did You Know?

A beaver can hold it’s breath for 45 minutes.
	More people are injured by cats, dogs, and pigs each year than by Great White Sharks.
A 70 pound octopus can squeeze through a hole no bigger than a silver dollar because it has no backbone.
	Orcas, also known as killer whales, are not whales but are the largest member of the dolphin family. The biggest animal in the world is the blue whale. It has a heart the size of a car and tongue as long as an elephant. The Blue Whales whistle is the loudest noise made by any animal.
Penguins can jump almost 6 feet into the air.
	There are more sheep in New Zealand than people.
An African ostrich egg weighs almost 30 pounds and is so strong a 200 pound man can stand on it without it breaking!
	When it is born, a kangaroo is only 1 inch long!
The fastest mammal - the dolphin - can swim up to 35 miles per hour.
	The bird that can fly the fastest is called a Canvasback duck. It can fly up to 70 miles per hour. Birds can sleep with one eye open.
A crocodile can’t move its tongue and cannot chew. Its digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steel nail.
	A horse can nap standing up.
No two zebras have identical stripes.
	Some frogs are tiny but the largest of them all, the Goliath frog, is the size of a baby deer!
No animal has killed more people than the hippo.
	Some turtles and tortoises, including the Eastern box turtle, can live for more than a century.
Averaging 10 to 12 feet in length, the king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world. It is also the only known snake that builds a nest for egg incubation.