Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
Armadillos can get leprosy.
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At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.
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At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal
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At birth, a panda bear is smaller than a mouse.
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Baby beavers are called kittens.
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
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Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour!
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Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
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Beavers have orange teeth!
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Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
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Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
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Black Whales are born white.
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Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
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Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
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Butterflies taste with their feet.
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By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.
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Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!
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Cat urine glows under a black-light!
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Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
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