Cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have a very high probability of having six toes.
A cat's jaws can not move sideways.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Armadillos can be house broken.
Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.
Armadillos can walk underwater. Fun animal facts.
Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian or some other Slavic tongue.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Reindeer like to eat bananas.
The Pug dog is thought to have gotten it's name from looking like the pug monkey.
The newest dog breed is the Bull Boxer, first bred in the United states in 1990-91.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
A cat has four rows of whiskers.
When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
Porcupines float in water.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
There are only two animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear and the Chow dog.
A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint or snowflake. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A zebra is white with black stripes.
All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's urine.
Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.
Despite its reputation for being finicky, the average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.
Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
During World War II, the very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allies killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Elephant tusks grow throughout an elephant's life and can weigh more than 200 pounds. Among Asian elephants, only the males have tusks. Both sexes of African elephants have tusks.