Cat sleeps for 16 hours a day and may live up to 20 years.
The goliath beetle (Goliathus), weighing over 100 g m, is the largest insect in the world.
Around the world, about species have been identified as life-threatening. Of these, 4,328 species are classified as endangered and 2,853 are critically endangered. As many as 60 species have been identified as extinct in the wild. The main causes of the extinction of species are, destruction of habitat by human activities and pollution by toxic chemicals, such as chlorinated-hydro carbons concentrated in food webs and the interconnected food-chains that circulate through an ecosystem.
Tiny as a pea, pea crab is the smallest crab in the world.
The marine cobra in the western Pacific is one of the most poisonous snakes in the world.
Japanese cranes which weigh 50 kg on an average, requires a run up of more than 30 ft to be airborne.
The longest living captive birds, sulphur crested cockatoos, of Australia, lives up to 80 years.
A male Marion's tortoise from the Seychelles broke all records by living up to 152 years. It was accidentally killed in 1918.
Whether a baby alligator is a girl or a boy, depends on the temperature that it develops. A boy will develop in a warm egg, but a girl will develop in a cold one. For crocodiles, it is the other way around.
The mocking bird has the ability to imitate the songs of 40 different birds.
