21 Weird and Interesting Facts About Animals!

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.

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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.

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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