A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times its own weight each year.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

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

A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

All pet hamsters are descended from a single female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed and continue living.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.