1. Animals are not born with instincts. They have to learn them through experience.

 2. A baby animal can't tell if its mother is pregnant until it's born.

 3. Baby birds don't know how to fly until they're about 2 weeks old.

 4. If you cut off a frog's legs, it won't hop around like before.

 5. Alligators can live without eating for months at a time.

 6. Dolphins sleep with their eyes open.


1. Animals have been around since the beginning of time. They are the only creatures that can move from place to place without any help. They have survived many things over the years.

 2. There are about 8 million species of animals on earth today. That's a lot!

 3. The first animal was created about 542 million years ago.

 4. A whale has a heart that beats at 1,000 times per minute.

 5. Sharks don't sweat. Their skin is covered in tiny blood vessels called dermal denticles. These little bumps help protect them against sunburn.

 6. Octopuses have eight arms.



1. Animals have a sense of smell that is 10 times greater than humans.

 2. A bee can fly around at 40 miles per hour.

 3. Sharks are the only fish with teeth.

 4. Dolphins use sonar.

 5. Octopuses have eight arms.

 6. Lizards can live without their tails.


1. Bees have been observed to use flowers to produce honey. A bee's mouth parts are not adapted to suck nectar from flowers. Instead, bees secrete enzymes that break down the flower's pollen into a sticky mass that they can then use to line their cells. This allows them to carry pollen from one blossom to the next.

 2. Ants are known to eat aphids, a type of insect that feeds on the leaves of many plants. When an ant finds an aphid on its leaf, it uses its jaws to clamp onto the aphid and then sucks out the juices.

 3. Honeybees pollinate about 80% of our food crops. They do this by carrying pollen from one flower to another. Honeybees collect the pollen from the anthers (the yellow sacs) of flowering plants, storing it on their bodies. Then, when they return to their hive, they transfer the pollen to other worker bees who use it to fertilize the queen's eggs.

 4. Termites are insects that live in colonies. Each colony has a single queen, but each individual termite can reproduce thousands of times over its lifetime. Because of this, termites are considered to be among the most successful insects.

 5. Bats are mammals that spend much of their time flying. Bats are nocturnal creatures and hunt prey using echolocation. Echolocation involves emitting high-frequency sounds and listening for the echoes that bounce back off objects in order to determine what is nearby.

 6. Many people think that ants are only beneficial, but some species of ants actually kill and eat other insects. Some species of ants even eat fungi!



 1. In the wild, the average life span of a lion is 25 years.

 2. A female polar bear can have from 1-5 cubs at a time.

 3. A male giraffe has been known to eat his own weight in food every day.

 4. A baby elephant only drinks milk for the first 6 months of its life.

 5. A hippo's tongue weighs about 4 pounds.

 6. A female walrus can weigh over 2000 lbs.


 1. Animals are not born with any knowledge about their environment. They learn everything they know from experience. They have no innate instinct that tells them what to eat, where to sleep, how to avoid danger, etc. Everything they know comes through experience.

 2. A baby elephant learns how to walk in its first few months by falling over and picking itself back up again and again. An infant chimpanzee learns how to use tools by watching his mother do it. A puppy learns how to sit by watching other dogs.



 3. Elephants can remember things for up to five years. Chimpanzees can remember things for up two years. A dog can only remember things for a matter of days.

 4. Dogs have been known to recognize and find their owners after being away from them for several years.

 5. A cat has been known to recognize its owner's voice even if the owner has changed clothes and shaved off his beard.

 6. Cats can distinguish between individual members of their family.



 1. Octopus

 Octopuses are known to have eight eyes, but they only use six of them. They can see what is going on around themselves in three dimensions, even though their eyes are spread out over such a large area.

 2. Snails

 Snail shells are not hard like other shells; they are actually made from calcium carbonate. This means that snails have no need for a bony skeleton because they make their own protective shell.

 3. Worms

 Worms do not have bones either, but they do have some interesting skeletal features. Their bodies are protected by a tough, cuticle layer called epidermis. When worms get older, this outer layer starts to break down and fall apart. Eventually, the body cavity expands until it forms a sack-like shape, while the remaining skin becomes hardened into a cone-shaped structure. This structure protects the internal organs and keeps parasites away.