10

While a baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.

9

Sharks and rays are the only species known to never get cancer. Scientists believe this may be because they have

cartilage rather than bones.

8

A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.

7

Oysters are usually

ambisexual. Through their lives they change from male to female and back again numerous times.

6

All shrimp are born as males, but slowly grow into females as they mature.

5

Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

4

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.

3

Birds cannot go into outer space. They use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so any bird would quickly choke and die in an environment without gravity.

2

The duckbill platypus has been known to store as many as six hundred worms at a time in the pouches of its cheeks.

1

Cows have been proven to give more milk when they listen to music.