Amazing Animal Facts

This animal can eat up to 1 thousand insects per hour.

This animal is immortal (it never dies!) It can go back to being a child again after it becomes an adult.

This animal has a specific alarm call that means “human!"

This animal's heart is located in its head.

This animal can be so smelly that it's powerful enough for a human to smell it up to 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away. Can you guess what it is?

What animal has three hearts?

These animals can stay underwater for up to 27 minutes and dive as far as 500m deep.

There are 1 million of these animals for every ONE human being in the world!

These animals “hold hands” while sleeping, so they don’t float away from each other.

This animal can sleep for THREE years at a time!

This animal weighs as much as three elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses. Can you guess what it is?

This animal can flap their wings 200 times per second!

These animals taste with their feet.

This animal spends 7 months of the year frozen.

Humans kill 100 million of these animals every year, BUT this animal kills less than 10 humans a year.

These animals play with snowballs for fun. Can you guess what it is?

Did you know this animal's eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels?

These types of animals (smaller bodies, faster metabolism) see in slow motion!

This animal has fingerprints almost identical to a human.

This animal's sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans’. However, they have only one-sixth our number of taste buds. Any guesses?

What animals have black skin and see-through fur? Can you guess what it is?

This animals is able to roll up into an armour-plated ball, so lions can’t eat them.