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An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away.

You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.

Elephants can’t jump, not even with the help of hurricane-force winds. They are too heavy to lift all four legs at the same time.

Dolphins sleep with one half of the brain at a time, and one eye closed.

No two zebras have the same markings.

The cat was domesticated over 4,000 years ago.

Both humans and cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion.

A cat's brain is more similar to a man's brain than that of a dog.

Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.

The female lion is a much more efficient hunter than the male.

Surveys show that 62 percent of dog owners admit that their dog owns a sweater, winter coat or raincoat.

Giraffes and humans have the same number of bones in their necks: seven.

Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.

A hippo can run faster than man.

Hippos are responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other wild animal.

The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth.

Blue Whales weigh as much as 30 elephants and are as long as three Greyhound buses.

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet.

Sharks have been around for over 400 million years.

Great white sharks can weigh as much as 4,500 pounds.

Sharks live in every ocean of the world from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

Many experts consider bull sharks to be the most dangerous sharks in the world.

Unlike most sharks, bull sharks tolerate fresh water & have been known to swim thousands of miles up rivers like the Amazon.

You are 1,000 times more likely to drown in the sea than you are to be bitten by a shark.

Fisherman kill 75-100 million sharks each year.