
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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
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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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Pumbaa from "The Lion King" was the first character to fart in a Disney movie.
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