As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.

The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal.