75 percent of wild birds die before they reach 6 months old.
Elephants can cool their bodies by up to ten degrees by flapping their ears. This cools the blood within them as it circulates around the rest of the body!
Some trees grow thanks to squirrels who bury nuts and forget about them. We owe them a bout of thanks for bringing more air filtering vegetation into the world!
Dolphins never drink sea water. Their livers cannot process the high salt content. Instead they get all the water they need from their food!
Bees are very important. Their contributions in nature including plant pollenation and honey creates a multimillion dollar empire to the food industry.
The beak, talons, and feathers are made of keratin. This is the same hard proteinous material human fingernails are made of!
There are only 2 species of venomous lizard in the world. They are the Gila Monster and Mexican Beaded lizard. But a Komodo Dragons mouth contains so much bacteria that one bit can kill!
A Blue Whales heart is the size of a small car. Despite it being the largest animal, it is on the verge of extinction.
Koala fingerprints and human fingerprints are almost impossible to tell apart.
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