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Useless Animal Data and Facts

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

Chocolate kills dogs! Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

Most lipstick contains fish scales. Yum.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and look like it is stinging itself to death. It spasms a lot.

Most scorpions will glow under black (ultraviolet) light.

Birds have the right of way on all Utah highways.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The original Winnie the Pooh was a real live bear found outside of Winnipeg, Canada, hence the name Winnie.

The first zoo in America was in Philadelphia.

Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is a fear of cats.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. Also, the powder on the bark of a quaking aspen tree works as a mosquito repellent.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A mayfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

A shrimp's heart is in its head.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand (or attempted to do so).

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twerp.

Rats and horses can't vomit.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

A cat's urine glows under a black light.

Killer whales are not, technically, whales. They are orcas, a relative of the porpoise and the dolphin.

If you stroke a shark from nose to tail, it is smooth. If you stroke it the other way, it is rough, and on some species, can even give you hand lacerations.

Elephants are the only land mammals that can't jump.

More about elephants: If you add up the circumference of two feet, you get exactly the elephant's height.

A snail can sleep for three months.