1. The feathery flightless ostrich’s muscular legs are powerful enough to kill man and lion alike.
2. Seahorses are monogamous and mate for life.
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3. Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
Photo credit: Reuben Goldberg
4. All clownfish are born male, and will only change sex to become a dominant female.
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5. Honeybees have tiny hairs on their eyes to help them collect pollen.
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6. A desert locust swarm can be 460 square miles in size and can consume 423 million pounds of plants in a single day.
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7. All polar bears are left-handed, or rather, left-pawed.
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8. Baby giraffes can stand within half an hour of birth.
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9. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
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10. Sea otters like to hold each other’s paws when sleeping so they don’t drift apart.
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11. Rats laugh when they are tickled and during playtime
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12. Just like zebras, no two tigers have the exact same stripes.
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13. When anacondas mate, several competing males can form a ball around a female in a ritual that can last up to a month.
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14. Butterflies taste with their feet.
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15. Alligators have been around for 150 million years.
Photo credit: Steve Lewis
16. Gentoo penguins use a pebble to propose to their girlfriends.
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17. The name “jaguar” comes from a Native American word meaning “he who kills with one leap”.
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18. Named for its miraculous abilities, the Amazon’s ‘Jesus Christ lizard’ can run over water.
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19. Cows have very complex friendships, and when they are isolated from their companions, they experience separation anxiety.
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20. Galapagos tortoises sleep for 16 hours a day and can go a year without food or water.
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21. Anteaters eat 35,000 ants a day.
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Source: Global Animal
Oh wow!!!! This is highly educative and interesting. Thank you C.J
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