Facts in category: Animals
| The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians. |
| A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't. |
| A rat can last longer without water than a camel can. |
| A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second. |
| The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. |
| A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. |
| The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. |
| The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds. |
| The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny. |
| At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. |
| The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago. |
| A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light. |
| A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage. |
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