Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
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An albatross can sleep while it flies!
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Ducks will only lay eggs early in the morning.
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A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water
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All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!
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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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Chained dogs are 3 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.
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Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
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Koala Bears are not bears.
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Snails breathe through their feet.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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A bird 'chews' with its stomach.
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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Cattle are the only mammals that pee backwards.
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Domestic cats hate lemons or other citrus scents.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
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Sheep outnumber humans in New Zealand 15 to 1.
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The ant can lift things 10 times its own weight.
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