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Animal Facts
Stegosauruses did not coexist in the same time frame as Tyrannosaurus Rex. In fact, the T-rex lived closer in time to us than it did to Stegosauruses.
The bumblebee bat, native to Myanmar and Thailand, is the world’s smallest mammal, weighing about as much as two paper clips and measuring about the length of a human fingertip.
Owl cafés are popular in Japan, especially in Tokyo, where visitors can observe and hold owls in a controlled environment.
Honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly more than 55,000 miles to make just 1 pound of honey.
After Animal Planet aired two fake documentaries on mermaids, the U.S. government issued a statement to clarify that mermaids do not exist.
The first formal guide dog training school was established in Oldenburg, Germany, in 1916 to assist soldiers blinded in combat during World War I.
Octopuses and squids have beaks made of chitin, the same material found in the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans.
Glass frogs are named as such because their internal viscera, including the heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract, are visible through the skin.
At the start of the 20th century, “chicken spectacles” were popularly used in the U.S. to prevent chickens from feather pecking or eating each other by restricting their vision.
One of the oldest animals on Earth is the ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, with the oldest fossils dating back approximately 525 million years.
In November 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth, aboard Sputnik 2.
Dogs can be allergic to human dander, causing symptoms like itching and sneezing. Recovery can take up to 12 months with treatments like corticosteroids and immunotherapy.
Schools of clownfish have a hierarchy with a female at the top. When the top female dies, the most dominant male changes his sex to female and takes over.
The name “orangutan” is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words orang, meaning “person,” and hutan, meaning “forest,” thus “person of the forest.”
A beekeeper in South Australia taught his dog Bazz to sniff out an infectious disease that wipes out bee colonies, then invented a dog beekeeper suit for Bazz the Beekeeper.
Mosquitoes helped the Continental Army during the American Revolution by spreading malaria among British troops.
Lemurs are named from the Latin term “lemures,” meaning spirits or ghosts, because of their nocturnal activity and slow, mysterious movements.
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.
When roosters crow, soft tissues in their heads close off their ear canals, acting as natural earplugs.
In Antarctica, researchers found fossils of Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, a giant extinct penguin thought to reach 6’ 6” (2 meters) in height and weigh about 256 pounds (116 kilograms).
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.
