FACTS: We like random bits of trivia, so today we are sharing animal facts from the website called The Fact Site.

Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.

Ostriches can run faster than horses, and males can roar like lions.

A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year, and female lions do 90 percent of the hunting.

Turtles, water snakes, crocodiles, alligators, dolphins and whales will drown if kept underwater too long.

This one’s a bit creepy: There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas.

And this one is sweet: Some male songbirds sing more than 2,000 times each day.

Along with human females, the only other mammals that undergo menopause are elephants and humpback whales.

A tarantula can survive more than two years without food.

If you lift a kangaroo’s tail off the ground it can’t hop. They use their tails for balance.

Cows can sleep standing up, but can only dream when lying down.

Alligators generally live between 30 and 50 years.

A single elephant tooth can weigh nine pounds.

Even a small amount of alcohol placed on a scorpion will make it go crazy and sting itself to death.

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

Ants never sleep, and don’t have lungs. And outnumber people 2 million to one.

A herd of 60 cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.

The great horned owl has no sense of smell.

Scientists have performed brain surgery on cockroaches.

A flea can jump up to 200 times its own height, which is equivalent to a man jumping the Empire State Building.

The very first bomb dropped on Berlin by the Allied Forces in World War II landed on an elephant.

A garden caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. A moth has no stomach.

Deer can’t eat hay. Goats were the first animals domesticated by man in 10,000 BC. And their kids are really cute. (OK, so we added that last one.)