Animal Fun Facts
Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a 24 hour period.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 113 kilometres per hour.
Greyhounds can jump a distance of 8.3 metres.
Cat whiskers are found on the face and on the back of the forelegs as well.
A hippo can run faster than man.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
A Panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
Polar bears can swim 97 km without pausing for a rest.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
.
Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
No two zebras have the same markings.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
An elephant herd can move eighty kilometres in a day.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
The fastest dog, the Saluki, can reach speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 3 and a half kilometres away.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sun burned.
The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
The slightest touch on a cat's whiskers will make its eyes blink.
A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
House mice are able to drop vertically down 3 and a half metres without injury. Mice can jump straight up 30 centimetres.
Large kangaroos cover more than 12 metres with each jump.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
A cat in a hurry can sprint at about 50 kilometres per hour.
A large porcupine can have over 30 000 quills covering its body.
There are more species of rodent than of any other animal group in the world.
Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
When angered, the ears of Tasmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
Polar bears have black skin.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
The koala is the world’s fussiest eater and feeds uniquely on eucalyptus leaves.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 5 and a half kilograms.
Elephant seals are air-breathing mammals, but they can hold their breath for up to two hours while diving.
A rabbit's teeth never stops growing. They are kept worn down by gnawing on food.
The only two mammals to lay eggs are the platypus and the echidna.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears.
The average Polar Bear stands about 2 and a half metres tall.
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.
A mole can dig a tunnel 90 metres long in a single night.
The male fox will mate for life and, if the female dies, he remains single for the rest of his life. However, if the male dies, the female will hook up with a new mate.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Dairy cows can produce 90 to 159 litres of saliva a day.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relative the pocket mouse, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air they breathe.
When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweat-like mucus through its skin.
Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, that is rarely visible. If it can be seen, it could be an indication of ill health.
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years.
Mice have to build their homes near sources of food because they like to eat 15 to 20 times per day.
Mice travel over their entire territory daily, investigating each change or new object that may be placed there.
Mice have poor vision, hence their activity patterns rely heavily on smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
Mice use the long sensitive whiskers near the nose and hairs on the body as tactile sensors. The whiskers and hairs enable the mouse to travel in the dark, adjacent to walls in burrows.
Mice also have an excellent sense of balance, enabling them to walk along telephone wires, ropes and similar thin objects.
Mice can easily travel for some distance hanging upside down.
Lemmings jump into the sea and commit suicide when their population in a particular region exceeds a certain limit.
A Kangaroo rat has the capability of going on for its entire lifetime without drinking.
Koalas have two thumbs.
The sloth normally travels an average of 4 and a half metres a day.
Caribou’s legs make a clicking sound when they move.
Caribou eat lichen and moss
Caribou almost never stop running.
All the calves in a herd of caribou are born over a span of 5 days.
Caribou are the only member of the deer family in which both males and females grow antlers.
The caribou’s most important ability is to smell lichens beneath the snow.
Arctic Hares make nests.
Arctic hares are brown in summer and white in winter.
Arctic hares have short ears to keep them warm.
Arctic hares communicate by moving their ears.
Arctic hares have black eyelashes that protect their eyes from the sun just like a pair of sunglasses.
Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like kangaroos.
Polar bear cubs learn to freeze and remain still while their mother hunts. If they move, the mother disciples them, with a whack to the head.
Polar bears have two types of fur. Thick woolly fur close to the skin and hollow guard hairs which are clear and protect them from getting wet - like drinking straws
The musk ox gets its name from its smell. When the Musk ox gets excited a substance is secreted from small glands around its eye that smells like musk.
The Eskimos call the musk ox “oomingmak”, which means “animal with skin like a beard”.
The musk ox is covered by a long, shaggy, brown to black coat, hanging from their 1.5 metre high shoulders almost to the ground, they look like a shaggy carpet on legs.
Musk oxen like to head butt. They separate themselves by about 50 metres and then gallop at full speed towards each other for an almighty collision, on par with an average size passenger car colliding with a brick wall at 30 km/ph.
Musk oxen herds use cooperation to deal with predators. When threatened, they "circle the wagons" and array themselves shoulder to shoulder, with their young in the middle and their sharp horns facing outward towards their foes.
Dall sheep eat dirt to get minerals.
Dall sheep’s horns are made out of the same stuff as our fingernails.
When Dall sheep sense danger they flock to rocks and crags to get away from predators.
Dall sheep lambs can climb on rocks without falling just hours after being born.
Arctic fox fur is the warmest fur of any mammal.
Arctic fox babies are called kits.
Arctic foxes do not hibernate and can withstand temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celcius.
Arctic foxes bury themselves in the snow for protection.
Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a 24 hour period.
You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
A cheetah can reach a top speed approaching 113 kilometres per hour.
Greyhounds can jump a distance of 8.3 metres.
Cat whiskers are found on the face and on the back of the forelegs as well.
A hippo can run faster than man.
The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk each day.
A Panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
Some lions can mate over 50 times a day.
If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop - they use their tails for balance.
Polar bears can swim 97 km without pausing for a rest.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump
.
Cats spend 30% of their waking hours grooming themselves.
A rhinoceros' horn is made of hair.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.
A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Dogs have about 100 different facial expressions, most of them made with the ears.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
No two zebras have the same markings.
Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
An elephant herd can move eighty kilometres in a day.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
A rhinoceros beetle can support up to 850 times its own weight on it's back. That would be the equivalent of a man carrying 76 family-sized cars around on his back.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
Cats step with both left legs, then both right legs when they walk or run. The only other animals to do this are the giraffe and the camel.
The fastest dog, the Saluki, can reach speeds of up to 70 kilometres per hour.
Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 3 and a half kilometres away.
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sun burned.
The badger is the best digger of all meat-eating or carnivore mammals.
The slightest touch on a cat's whiskers will make its eyes blink.
A cat's tongue consists of small "hooks," which come in handy when tearing up food.
A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
House mice are able to drop vertically down 3 and a half metres without injury. Mice can jump straight up 30 centimetres.
Large kangaroos cover more than 12 metres with each jump.
Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
A woodchuck breathes only 10 times during hibernation.
The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick - so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.
A cat in a hurry can sprint at about 50 kilometres per hour.
A large porcupine can have over 30 000 quills covering its body.
There are more species of rodent than of any other animal group in the world.
Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.
Armadillos can walk underwater.
When angered, the ears of Tasmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
Polar bears have black skin.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
The koala is the world’s fussiest eater and feeds uniquely on eucalyptus leaves.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 5 and a half kilograms.
Elephant seals are air-breathing mammals, but they can hold their breath for up to two hours while diving.
A rabbit's teeth never stops growing. They are kept worn down by gnawing on food.
The only two mammals to lay eggs are the platypus and the echidna.
Elephants and short-tailed shrews get by on only two hours of sleep a day.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears.
The average Polar Bear stands about 2 and a half metres tall.
Lions cannot roar until they reach the age of two.
It takes a sloth two weeks to digest the food it eats.
A mole can dig a tunnel 90 metres long in a single night.
The male fox will mate for life and, if the female dies, he remains single for the rest of his life. However, if the male dies, the female will hook up with a new mate.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Dairy cows can produce 90 to 159 litres of saliva a day.
Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relative the pocket mouse, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air they breathe.
When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweat-like mucus through its skin.
Cats have a third eyelid, called a haw, that is rarely visible. If it can be seen, it could be an indication of ill health.
The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.
A cow's only sweat glands are in its nose.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to 2 years.
Mice have to build their homes near sources of food because they like to eat 15 to 20 times per day.
Mice travel over their entire territory daily, investigating each change or new object that may be placed there.
Mice have poor vision, hence their activity patterns rely heavily on smell, taste, touch, and hearing.
Mice use the long sensitive whiskers near the nose and hairs on the body as tactile sensors. The whiskers and hairs enable the mouse to travel in the dark, adjacent to walls in burrows.
Mice also have an excellent sense of balance, enabling them to walk along telephone wires, ropes and similar thin objects.
Mice can easily travel for some distance hanging upside down.
Lemmings jump into the sea and commit suicide when their population in a particular region exceeds a certain limit.
A Kangaroo rat has the capability of going on for its entire lifetime without drinking.
Koalas have two thumbs.
The sloth normally travels an average of 4 and a half metres a day.
Caribou’s legs make a clicking sound when they move.
Caribou eat lichen and moss
Caribou almost never stop running.
All the calves in a herd of caribou are born over a span of 5 days.
Caribou are the only member of the deer family in which both males and females grow antlers.
The caribou’s most important ability is to smell lichens beneath the snow.
Arctic Hares make nests.
Arctic hares are brown in summer and white in winter.
Arctic hares have short ears to keep them warm.
Arctic hares communicate by moving their ears.
Arctic hares have black eyelashes that protect their eyes from the sun just like a pair of sunglasses.
Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like kangaroos.
Polar bear cubs learn to freeze and remain still while their mother hunts. If they move, the mother disciples them, with a whack to the head.
Polar bears have two types of fur. Thick woolly fur close to the skin and hollow guard hairs which are clear and protect them from getting wet - like drinking straws
The musk ox gets its name from its smell. When the Musk ox gets excited a substance is secreted from small glands around its eye that smells like musk.
The Eskimos call the musk ox “oomingmak”, which means “animal with skin like a beard”.
The musk ox is covered by a long, shaggy, brown to black coat, hanging from their 1.5 metre high shoulders almost to the ground, they look like a shaggy carpet on legs.
Musk oxen like to head butt. They separate themselves by about 50 metres and then gallop at full speed towards each other for an almighty collision, on par with an average size passenger car colliding with a brick wall at 30 km/ph.
Musk oxen herds use cooperation to deal with predators. When threatened, they "circle the wagons" and array themselves shoulder to shoulder, with their young in the middle and their sharp horns facing outward towards their foes.
Dall sheep eat dirt to get minerals.
Dall sheep’s horns are made out of the same stuff as our fingernails.
When Dall sheep sense danger they flock to rocks and crags to get away from predators.
Dall sheep lambs can climb on rocks without falling just hours after being born.
Arctic fox fur is the warmest fur of any mammal.
Arctic fox babies are called kits.
Arctic foxes do not hibernate and can withstand temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celcius.
Arctic foxes bury themselves in the snow for protection.
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