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Animal Facts
There is an unknown number of Nile crocodiles in Florida. They are the second-largest crocodile and are more dangerous than Florida’s native crocodiles and alligators.
Rats trained to detect landmines in Cambodia can clear 200 square meters in 20 to 35 minutes, a process that usually takes human de-miners two to three days.
The myotonic goat, also known as the Tennessee fainting goat, stiffens and may fall over when startled or excited due to a hereditary condition called myotonia congenita.
As a defense mechanism, hagfish excrete a slime that expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, and is 100,000 times softer than Jell-O.
The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn, which has been featured in Scottish heraldry since the 12th century.
Standing at around 3-4 feet (0.9-1.2 meters) tall, velociraptors were only about twice the size of an average chicken.
Humans were not the first living creatures in space; fruit flies earned that title when they were launched aboard a U.S. rocket in 1947 to study radiation exposure.
Humans aren’t the only animals that make drum beats. Macaque monkeys and even some rodents have been observed drumming with their paws.
Adult cats typically only meow at humans, not other cats. Kittens meow to their mother, but once they get a little older, they don’t meow to other cats.
Male billy goats smell so bad because they urinate on their own head, beard, and front legs to smell more attractive to females during their mating season.
Parrots name their offspring with unique calls that the young birds learn and use throughout their lives.
Due to their intelligence and agility, ferrets have been employed to run cables through confined spaces.
The seagulls in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie “The Birds” were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away.
Bees have three tiny additional eyes on the top of their heads called ocelli, which collect and focus light to help them navigate.
When roosters crow, soft tissues in their heads close off their ear canals, acting as natural earplugs.
In November 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.
Octopuses and squids have beaks made of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans.
Dragonflies existed over 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs, with some prehistoric species having wingspans as large as 2.5 feet.
There are two species of African spiders named after “The Dude” from The Big Lebowski. They are called “Anelosimus biglebowski” and “Anelosimus dude.”
There is a species of horse fly with a golden abdomen named “Scaptia beyonceae” in honor of Beyoncé.
In 1996, researchers found a young orca with severe spine and fin injuries. Unable to hunt, the calf, called Stumpy, was cared for by up to five different orca pods.
Although a lion has appeared on Britain’s coat of arms since at least 1189 AD, the country hasn’t had wild lions since the Stone Age.
