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•  Lions sleep up to 20 hours a day.
• Gorillas sleep in nests which they build in tree tops.
• Blue whale babies weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth. 
• Crickets have ears positioned on their knees.
• Puffer fish puffs it's body to scare away the enemies.
• Salmon live in the sea, but they return to breed in river where they were born.
• A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs.
• Snakes never close their eyes at any time.
• Chameleon lizards can look in two directions at the same time.
• If a lizard's tail is broken off, it can usually grow a new one.
• A bird called Swift spends all it's time in the air. It only comes down to breed.
• Flamingoes are pink because their bodies take the colour of shrimps they eat.
• Elephants spend 23 hours a day eating.
• No two zebras have exactly the same pattern of stripes.
• Squirrels sometimes wrap their bushy tails around their body to keep themselves warm.
• Sailors have been known to have mistaken the basking whales for islands and try to land on them.
• A chameleon can alter it's colour depending on it's mood. 
•  It takes an elephant calf 6 months how to use it's trunk.
• Flies take off backwards.
• The giraffe has 7 neck bones exactly the same as humans.
• Dolphins and whales talk to each other whistling.
• The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
• Rare African gorillas are sometimes killed to use their hand to make ashtrays.
• The rare kakapo parrot lays one egg every four years

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