1. Sharks are mammals.

Answer: False - they are actually classified as fish.

1. Sea otters have a favorite rock they use to break open food.
Answer: True - they keep these treasures in the loose skin under their arms.
1. The blue whale is the biggest animal to have ever lived.
Answer: True - and that includes dinosaurs!
1. The hummingbird egg is the world's smallest bird egg.
Answer: True - on the flip side, ostriches lay the largest eggs.
1. Pigs roll in the mud because they don't like being clean.
Answer: False - pigs have few sweat glands and their muddy baths help keep them
cool.
1. Bats are blind.
Answer: False - bats often find their way using ultrasound but their eyes work, just
not particularly well).
1. A dog sweats by panting its tongue.
Answer: False - canines sweat through glands in their paws.
1. It takes a sloth two weeks to digest a meal.
Answer: True - that's the slowest digestion time of any mammal!
1. The largest living frog is the Goliath frog of West Africa.
Answer: True - this amphibian reaches lengths of 12.5 inches and weighs 7.2 pounds.
1. An ant can lift 1,000 times its body weight.
Answer: False - ants can lift 5,000 times their body weight!
1. When exiting a cave, bats always go in the direction of the wind.
Answer: False - bats always turn left out of a cave.
1. Galapagos tortoises sleep up to 16 hours a day.
Answer: True - and they can go a year without food or water, so they have lots of time
for extra sleep.
1. An octopus has seven hearts.
Answer: False - it has three hearts and they do a lot of work. One heart circulates
blood around the body and the other two pump blood past the gills and pick up
oxygen.
1. The goat is the national animal of Scotland.
Answer: False - it is the unicorn.
1. Herbivores are animal eaters.
Answer: False - herbivores only eat plants.
1. A monkey was the first non-human to go into space.
Answer: False - fruit flies were the first to make the trip.