Do you know?

1. Cows have an average lifespan of 7 years. Big Bertha was the oldest cow ever recorded, when she reached 48 in 1993.
She also holds the record for producing the most number of calves – 39.

2. A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth.

3. Ants can carry up to 10 times their own weight.

4. Male orangutans are 4 times stronger than the average man.

5. A woodchuck only breathes 10 times during hibernation.

6. 1 in every 4 animals is a beetle.

7. Camels can produce up to 600 litres of milk a year. They can also close their nostrils.

8. A blue whale’s heart beats only 9 times a minute.

9. The blue-ringed octopus starts life the size of a pea and is fully grown at the size of a golf ball,

but it carries enough poison to kill 26 adults within minutes.

10. A hippo can run faster than a man.