A mated pair of rats can produce up to 15,000 babies in one year.
Three giant snapping turtles turned up inside a Bronx, New York sewage treatment plant in 1988. Each
weighed about 23 kilos and had probably been flushed down the loo when small as unwanted pets.
The hippopotamus gives birth underwater and nurses its young in the river, but the young hippos must come up
periodically for air.
In ancient Rome the cat was the symbol of liberty.
At the court of French monarch Louis XIV, prestige was measured by the height of the chair one
was allowed to sit in.
