Random Animal Facts

    230 facts tagged with Animal Facts

    Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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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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    One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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    The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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    Octopuses enter a dementia-like state after breeding, forget what happened
    After octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.
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    A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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    It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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    The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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