Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
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A Koala Bear sleeps 22 hours of every day.
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Only female bees work.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!
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Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump!
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On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
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Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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Dogs can make about 100 different facial expressions.
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