Amazing Animal Facts

This animal has fingerprints almost identical to a human.

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

These animals taste with their feet.

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

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

This animal can flap their wings 200 times per second!

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 weighs as much as three elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses. 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.

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?

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

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

This animal's heart is located in its head.

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

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

This animal spends 7 months of the year frozen.

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

This animal can sleep for THREE years at a time!

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?