If you bring a raccoon’s head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.

Koko, a gorilla which learned sign language, once lied to her trainers, blaming her kitten for tearing a sink out of the wall.

Research shows seahorses flirt with many as 25 potential partners a day, and about 37% of sexual encounters are same-sex acts.

Legislators in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are considering a law that would require pets to wear seat belts when traveling in a car.

There’s a program that pairs abused or abandoned dogs with prison inmates for the rehabilitation of the dogs and inmates.

Cats have scent glands on their face that release a pheromone when they rub onto us to say that they are ours, and we are theirs.

McDonald’s in the UK changed the design of McFlurry in 2006 as stray hedgehogs were getting their heads caught in the lids.

There are a type of ‘fluffy’ cows which are especially created by mixing high quality breeds for bovine-show business.

Crows can recognize human faces and warn other crows about a dangerous face. They also do not forget your face if you mess with them.

Fleas can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6 foot person jumping 780 feet into the air.

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.

Sea otters licked and fluff their newborn for hours, causing their pup’s fur to retain enough air to act as a floatation device.

On September 7, 1936, the last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, died alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

In Russia’s Kronotsky Nature Reserve, there is a bear population that huffs jet fuel from old barrels until they get high and pass out.

Alex was a parrot subject of a 30-year experiment. His last words to his caretaker were: ” You be good, see yo tomorrow. I love you.”