Facts in category: Animals
| The copperhead, a snake that strikes without warning, is considered much more dangerous than the rattlesnake. |
| The guppy is a small carnivorous freshwater fish whose natural environment is the tropics. |
| If the cerebellum of a pigeon were destroyed, the bird would not be able to fly. |
| If baby geese are hatched in the absence of their mother, they will follow the first moving object that they see. |
| If a live sponge is broken into pieces, each piece turns into a new sponge like the original one. |
| Although thousands of grizzly bears used to roam the Western Plains of the United States, today only a few thousand exist. |
| Many birds will, in the normal course of their migrations, fly more than three thousand miles to reach their winter homes. |
| A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I. |
| The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants. |
| Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. |
| Ants use their antenae not only for touch, but also for their sense of smell. |
| The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. |
| An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human. |
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