They say it's a jungle out there

Well, if you're a tepid little craeture, much like myself, then you can avoid the jungle all together by hopping on a bus and heading down to your local zoo.

I did this today and learned many interesting things, such as:

- an elephant's gestation period is 22 months (holy shit!!!)
- a lion (I'd say a 'male lion' but that would be redundant) spends up to 20 hours of the day sleeping and resting (in my next life I want to be a lion!)
- in a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win (could that be because lions spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping and resting?)
- the ostrich has a 46-foot long small intestine (I'm guessing most of it is in its neck!)
- the giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal (must be the strain of having that long neck)
- Zebras can't see the color orange (and we know this how exactly???)
- Chimpanzees are our closest relatives, with only 1.6% of our genetic material differing between humans and chimps (you wouldn't think so after a visit to The White House)
- a tiger's paw prints are called pug marks (mmmm, interesting)
- Elephants are the only animals that can't jump (well thank God!!!)
- Great White Sharks can go as long as three months without eating (now that's taking a diet too far)
- Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur (and here I was thinking it was white)