Animals
Weird and Amazing Animal Facts
When I have been travelling around your world I have learnt strange and amazing things about animals that are really weird.
I am going to make a list of animal facts that I think are the weirdest or funniest I have heard.
They could be true. Why don't you do some research yourself and see if they are.
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A Shark's teeth are normally replaced every eight days. |
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Man-eating sharks prefer to eat men. 13 males are bitten for every one female |
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A Great White Shark can go without eating for up to three months. |
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If you lift a Kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop. |
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Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air. |
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A group of Kangaroos is called a mob. |
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A young Kangaroo is called a Joey. |
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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. |
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Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water. |
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The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g). |
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A bear can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h). |
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Elephants are the only animal that can't jump. |
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Polar bears are left handed. |
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A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. |
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A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. |
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Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. |
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Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing. |
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The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) means 'barking dog'. |
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Snakes can see through their eyelids. |
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A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second. |
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Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain. |
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The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees. |
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Butterflies tast sensors are in their feet. They taste their food by standing on it. |
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Katydids have ears in their front legs. |
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The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. |
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Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food. |
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The flying frog uses flaps of skin between its toes to glide. |
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The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute. |
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The Chameleon's tongue is as long as its body. |
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The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once. |
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The Kangaroo's ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos. |
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Flamingos eat with their heads upside down to strain the water out of their food. |
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Many snakes never stop growing. That's one reason they must shed their skin. |
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The Artic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in each place. |
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The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world. It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans. |
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A hippopotamus can stay under water for up to 30 minutes. |
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The Basenji is the only dog which does not bark. |
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Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping. |
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The Sun Bear has the longest tongue of all bear species - 20-25 centimetres (8 to 10 inches) long. |
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If the Sun Bear is grabbed or bitten around its head, it can turn round inside the wrinkly skin on its head and bite the predator. |
