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Crows are very intelligent birds. They can communicate with each other in great distances. They are smart enough to crack their food by throwing them onto the heavy traffic so they can have the food crushed by the cars.
Chimpanzees are very clever. They can use simple tools such as brush, cup, and spoon. They can learn 40 different signs. They can make simple sentences and they have even learned how to use money in the vending machines.
Common side-blotched lizards' mothers can apply different color patterns on their babies, to help them avoid enemies.
Never play hide-and-seek with a shark because you'll lose. Sharks have special cells in their brains that are sensitive to the electrical fields other creatures generate. Some sharks can find fish hiding under sand by the little electric signals from their muscles.
Drumfish can hear with the hairs inside its ear.
When horses lie down to sleep, others in the herd remain standing, awake or in a light doze, in order to keep watch.
Monarch butterflies fly from Canada to Mexico through the United States about 3,000 miles each autumn.
Cats have a mirror-like thin layer in the backs of their eyes so they can see in the darkness.
Humpback whales hold the world's record for longest mammalian voyage. They spend the warmer months eating a ton of food a day in waters off the Arctic Peninsula. In the winter, they swim 5,000 miles away to the breeding grounds near Columbia and the Equator.
Bats find their ways by giving out ultrasonic sounds in the environment.
Sensitive organs located between the eyes and nostrils of boas and pit vipers help them find their food by feeling their heat. This way they can easily attack on their prey even in the darkness.
Most rats cannot see very well, but they can find their way with their whiskers. They use the long hairs, in the same way that blind people use canes.
When a mother penguin loses her chick, she attempt to steal other's chick.
Dogs have poor eyesight and no color vision but their sense of smell is excellent. They can detect smell one million times better than men.
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle, the Greek philosopher
Their jumping ability is amazing. They have strong long legs and long tail which they sit on. They never drink water. They get water from the desert plants.
Honeybees make 37.000 trips to find flower nectar and carry it back to the hive to make 500 grams of honey. They flap their wings 200 times per second! Bees buzz but they don't know it because they are deaf.
Meerkats live in the desert. They guide people during their travel across the desert and protect them against the insects. They teach their young ones how to how to eat a venomous scorpion: they will remove the stinger.
Fleas can jump 100 times their own height. This can be compared to a man's jumping as high as 40-story building.
Dolphins do not sleep because they need to come up to the surface to breathe and have to be alert for possible dangers in the ocean.
Many migrating birds can use the Earth's magnetic field to stay in their long flights. They have a very strong visiual sense that they can easily migrate to the same place every year.