Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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Ralph, the world's largest bunny, weighs 55 pounds and eats $90 worth of food a week.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Female kangaroos have three vaginas.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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It takes at least eight bees all their life to make one single teaspoonful of honey.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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A group of pugs is called a grumble.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Blue whale arteries are large enough for humans to swim through and their hearts are the size of cars.
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Bats sleep 18-20 hours per day.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Only 3% of bird species have penises.
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