Ten fun facts about Animals
Fact 1:
There are presently over a million animal species upon planet earth.
Fact 2:
A dog was the first animal to up in space.
Fact 3:
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Fact 4:
A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.
Fact 5:
Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
Fact 6:
A giraffe can clean its own ears with its 50cm long tongue.
Fact 7:
The South American giant anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day.
Fact 8:
The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
Fact 9:
Animals are just as humans either right-handed or left-handed. Polar bears are left-handed.
Fact 10:
A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
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Ant Eaters
Are burrowing nocturnal animals, belonging to the suborder Vermilingua.
Zebras
Are part of the equidae family that includes donkeys and horses.
Llamas
are domesticated South American camelids, widely used as meat and pack animals by Andean cultures since pre-Hispanic times.
Gorillas
Are the only animals that have a DNA profile that is almost 98% similar to humans.
Rhinoceros
Have a stocky but powerful built and can weigh up to about 3,500 lbs to 6,000 lbs when fully grown.
Whales
Whales are very large marine mammals, that live in the oceans.
Wolves
Were the first animals to be domesticated by man and regarded as gods in the Norse mythologies.
Chimpanzees
Are the largest of the living primates and they share 98% of their genes with humans.
Koalas
Are warm-blooded marsupial animals and their scientific name is Phasclarctos Cinereus.
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