Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
2
The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
492
The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
10
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.
10
A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
186
A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
216