Did You Know?

• Only 10% of owned dogs were adopted from an animal shelter.
• 39% of U.S. households own at least one dog.
• The Sun Gem Hummingbird beats its wings at the rate of 90 beats per second.
• The average life span of an adult butterfly is one to two weeks, but it can be as brief as two days or as long as a year.
• Tortoises are the only animals that normally live longer than man. The oldest tortoise ever known was an Aldabra tortoise that was approximately 152 years old.
• One in every four pets in the United States is obese.
• For every person born in the United States, 15 dogs and 45 cats are born.
• About six million vertebrate animals are dissected yearly in U.S. high schools alone.
• Polar bears - the largest of all bears - carry four-inch layers of fat to retain their body heat.
• Chimpanzees share 98.4% of their DNA with human beings.