On Sunday in Massachusetes between 5 am and 12 pm it is illegal to feed ducks while humming .

If a person had a humming bird's metabolism that person would have to eat 285 lbs of hamburger to maintain his or her weight.

Since 1600, 109 species and subspecies of birds have become extinct.

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

All hamsters are descended from a single female (and her mates) found in a Syrian tomb in 1930.

Turkeys were once thought to come from, where else, but Turkey.

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

Armadillos can walk under water.

A single pig gave birth to 34 piglets in Denmark in 1961.

Talking and singing birds are cerebrally lateralized for language on their left sides, like humans.

Pigs will eat any Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor but for one, Mint Oreo.