When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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