There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
9
Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
82
15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
1
One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
427
The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
274
The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
4
Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
132