Flamingos are found in warm, shallow, watery regions on many continents. Flamingos live an average of 20 to 30 years. Flamingos put there head underwater and scoop backward with the head upside down to eat. The pink of the flamingo comes from...

Beavers grow three to four feet long and weigh between forty and sixty pounds. The lifespan of a beaver is approximately sixteen years. The beaver will slap his tail hard on the water surface to warn his family of danger; a beaver's slap can be...

Fastest mammals on land, the cheetah can reach speeds of 60 or even 70 miles an hour. It only takes a cheetah 2 seconds to go from 0 to 45 mph. The name cheetah comes from an Indian word meaning "spotted one." The cheetah is the most primitive...

Garden snails hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat. Snails cannot hear. A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt! Giant snails may live to 20 years or more. The kauri snail is carnivorous and cannibalistic....

Iguanas are about ten inches long when hatched. Iguanas are also among the most popular reptile pets in the United States. The name of the family that iguanas are in is iguanidae. Iguanas are herbivores. Iguanas can be as small as 14 inches...

The ostrich is the biggest known bird on the whole wide world The average adult male is between 8 and 10 feet tall and weighs in at over 250 pounds. It is unable to fly and belongs to the Ratite family, which literally means flightless. An...

The largest Giant Pacific Octopus ever caught weighed about 600 pounds, about the same weight as a Brown bear! Using a network of pigment cells and specialized muscles in its skin, the common octopus can almost instantaneously blend into pretty much...

During the First World War a pigeon named Cher Ami (Dear friend) saved the lives of many French soldiers by carrying a message across enemy lines in the heat of battle. There are as many as 28 pigeon color types. Pigeons can fly up to 40 or 50...

Rats are everywhere: Rats and mice constitute more than 25 percent of all mammal species and have adapted to nearly every type of habitat on earth. To avoid them, you would have to move to the snowy wastelands of Antarctica or Greenland. Like most...

Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human. The Army Ant (Ecitron Burchelli) of South...

In all there are over 120,000 species of flies ranging in size from 1/20th of an inch to well over three inches. Flies are attracted by movement more than color. Fruit flies live for 8-10 days. In that time, females lay around 500 eggs, using...

There are over 40 different types (species) of Kangaroo. The adult male Kangaroo is called buck, boomer or jack. Adult females are called doe, flyer or jill. Kangaroos are found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. A kangaroo can hop at...