1) Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.

2) Seals used for their fur get extremely sick when taken aboard ships.

3) Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

4) Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat.

5) The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

6) Young beavers stay with their parents for the first two years of their lives before going out on their own.

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

8) Deer can't eat hay.

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

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

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

12)The lifespan of a squirrel is about nine years.

13)North American oysters do not make pearls of any value.

14)Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

15)Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.