Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
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Scorpions + Alcohol
Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
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A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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A dairy cow can produce more milk when listening to music.
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Most elephants weigh less than a blue whale's tongue.
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Flies are deaf.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
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