Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
A baby octopus is about the size of a flea at birth.
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A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
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A blue whale's aorta (the main blood vessel) is large enough for a human to crawl through.
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A blue whale's heart is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle!
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A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
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A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long!
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A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
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A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.
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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!
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A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
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A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
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A Giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a man.
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A group of frogs is called an army.
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A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
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A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
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A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!
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A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water
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