Animal Facts

    Random Animal Facts

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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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    A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
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    Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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    The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
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    Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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    A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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    The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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