Animal Facts

    Animal Facts

    Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.

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    The average housefly weighs 10 to 15 millionths of a pound.
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    The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
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    A shrimp's heart is in its head.
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    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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    Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
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    Elephants, lions, and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.
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    Hummingbirds can't walk.
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    Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
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    The Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei are the only dogs that have black tongues.
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    The flea can jump 350 times its body length, that is like a human jumping the length of a football field.
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    Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
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    Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
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    How does a shark find fish? It can hear their hearts beating.
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