Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
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Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
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On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
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A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
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Honeybees never sleep.
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Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
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The most expensive cow in the world was sold $1.3 million.
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If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white
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The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
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The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!
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The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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Most domestic turkeys are so heavy they are unable to fly.
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When it comes time to give birth, the female shark loses her appetite so she won't be tempted to eat her own pups.
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Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
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A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
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The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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