&ANIMAL FACTS I've found these on the internet, i thought it was pretty interesting so i decided to share them with you :)

• A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.

• A shrimp's heart is in its head.

• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

• The heaviest domestic cat is a tabby called 'Himmy' who weighed 21.3kg (46lb 15oz) at his death in 1984.

• Goats and octopus' eyes have rectangular pupils. Eeeewwwwww

• Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.

• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

• It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

• Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occuring, relax and correct itself. At about that height it hits maximum speed and when it hits the ground its rib cage absorbs most of the impact

• A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.

• In the state of Minnesota, citizens may not enter Wisconsin with a chicken on their head

• The female preying mantis devours her partner while they're mating or she might rip his head off before because he cannot 'perform' with his head is attached to his body. Girl Power!

• Polar bear livers are poisonous because they contain too much vitamin C

• A cockroach will live nine days without it's head before it starves to death

• Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.

• A study conducted in Germany appears to show listening to loud rock music causes homosexuality in rats. Why hell did they conduct a study into that?

• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people !

• In some American states it is illegal to have sex with a dead fish! What about the live ones then? And the other question is how?

• Contray to the phrase "sweating like a pig", pigs cant actually sweat

• A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why. (However, it was discovered on a British TV show, "Brianiac" that this myth is a complete lie!)

• In Utah, birds have the right of way on all highways.

• To survive, every bird must eat at least half its own weight in food each day.

• All porcupines float in water.

• Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

• Apart from humans, certain species of chimpanzee are the only animals to experiment sexually. They have been known to 'wife swap' and indulge in group sex. Kinky!

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

• The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

• The groundhog is only accurate in predicting the weather 28% of the time.

• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

• All polar bears are left-handed.

• A snail can sleep for three years.

• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

• It's possible to lead a cow upstairs ... but not downstairs.

• More people fear spiders more than they do death.

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

• The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.

• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

• Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.

• Starfish have no brains.

• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

• A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

• If someone places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

• Cats and dogs can only see the colours blue and yellow.

• It is impossible to hum if your nose is plugged. Try it!

• Chickens can't burp.