Animal Facts
Learn amazing facts about wildlife with our regularly updated category for animal facts.
Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love "Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men". The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness, and was even a turn on for one pair of Jaguars who were subject to it.
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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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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Cuban rescue workers use sniffer rabbits to find people in collapsed buildings.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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The Savannah is the largest domestic cat breed. It resembles a small leopard and behaves like a dog. They can grow up to 40 lbs, have an eight foot vertical jump, and can be trained to walk on a leash and play fetch.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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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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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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