An ostrich’s powerful long legs can cover 10 to 16 feet in a single stride. Their legs can also be formidable weapons. In fact, an ostrich kick can kill a human or a potential predator like a lion.
When lobsters fight or flirt with each other, they actually squirt urine at each other’s faces from little urine release nozzles under their eyes.
The trap-jaw ant from Central and South Africa can snap its jaw shut at a speed of up to 145 miles per hour. To put that into context, that’s 2,300 times faster than the blink of an eye.
According to a study led by Igor Malyshev, a zoologist at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, the Australian red kangaroo and the eastern gray kangaroo are almost always left-handed.
