I’ve been an animal lover all of my life. I’ve had all sorts of pets from ferrets, snakes, dogs, cats, and the list goes on and on. Today I thought I’d share with you some odd and trivia type facts on the animal kingdom. With this started . . .

• A group of apes is called a shrewdness.

• A group of alligators is called a congregation.

• The blue whale has the largest penis of any organism on earth (8-10 ft).

• The female barkfly has a penis, which is used to extract sperm from the male barkfly’s vagina.

• A group of cockroaches is called an intrusion.

• Boars can ejaculate continuously for up to 7 min.

• A severed cockroach head can survive for hours.

• The decapitated cockroach can live for weeks before it starves to death.

• Fleas can survive for up to 100 days without a meal (without sucking your blood).

• Cats are more popular pets and dogs.

• The canine nose has more than four times as many scent receptors as the average cat nose (and more than 14 times as many as the human nose).

• A dog on average has 42 teeth, compared to 30 teeth for domestic cats.

• Cats can be left-handed.

• Each year nearly 4,000,000 cats are eaten in China as a delicacy.

• Electric eels generate enough electric charge to kill a horse or a human.

I think that’s enough for today and I’m sure you learned more than you ever cared about knowing of the weird and wonderful world of animals.