| A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second |
| It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound |
| In its entire lifetime, the average worker bee produces 1/12th teaspoon of honey |
| Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump |
| No two spider webs are the same |
| The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons |
| There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth |
| A zebra is white with black stripes |
| If an octopus is hungry enough, it will eat its own arms |
| When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone |