Guide dogs are able to go against their owners’ instructions when they think their order is unsafe. This is called intelligent disobedience.

Baby blue whales can consume up to 150 gallons of their mother’s milk a day.

Dog blood type is different than the types found in people. In fact, there are six major blood types, but amazingly, forty-two percent of dogs have the same type, which is universal.

Kamikaze or exploding ants from Southeast Asia kill themselves when under threat. They have a toxic substance in their heads and in two large glands on the sides of their bodies that are filled with poison. Under threat, they literally explode their heads or rupture their bodies to spray the poison to cover the predator.

The wels catfish is the largest freshwater fish in Europe. It can grow up to fifteen feet long, weigh as much as 660 pounds, and live for decades, possibly for as long as eighty years.