Fun Facts – 06 August 2014

– Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

– Deer can't eat hay.

– Gopher snakes in Arizona are not poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails like rattlesnakes.

– On average, dogs have better eyesight than humans, although not as colorful.

– The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

– The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

– North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

– Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

– Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents. Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

– Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.

– A biological reserve has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.