Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, can grow over 13 inches in length and can jump up to 10 feet in a single bound.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Ralph, the world's largest bunny, weighs 55 pounds and eats $90 worth of food a week.
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One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States.
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A new born kangaroo is small enough to fit in a spoon!
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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George was the world's largest dog who weighed 233 pounds, stood at 43 inches tall from paw to shoulder, and ate 180 pounds of food a month.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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A group of ferrets is called a business.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."
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Baby rabbits are called kittens.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
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