Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
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In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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We share 70% of our DNA with a slug.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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