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Amazing Facts About Animals
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Amazing Facts About Animals

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Many of us don’t know the many wonders of animals which is why I created this post to inform you! Enjoy!

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    Panda’s must eat 25 – 90 pounds (12-38 kg) of bamboo every day to meet their energy needs

    A Blue Whales tongue can weigh as much as a car, or a small adult elephant

    Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort (like human babies suck their fingers)

    The Nile crocodiles jaws can apply 5,000 pounds of pressure per square inch – the strongest bite of any animal in the world

    Axolotl are able to regenerate lost limbs and body organs and even parts of its brain

    The male seahorse gives birth to babies, up to 2,000 at a time

    There is an average of 50,000 spiders per acre in green areas

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    Colossal squids eyes are as large as a basketball

    White-tailed jackrabbits are the greatest land jumpers, having been recorded leaping an astonishing 21ft (6.4m) vertically

    Grey-headed Albatross can circle the globe in only 46 days

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    A swift fly without landing for 10 months

    An ostrich legs are so powerful that their kicks can kill a lion.

    The dementor wasp paralyses cockroaches with venom to its head, turning them into a zombie-like state. The toxins leave the cockroach unable to control its own movements, which incredibly makes it run into the wasps nest to meet its demise.

    More than half of all pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China and some of their pigs are the size of bears

    Giant anteaters consume up to 35,000 ants and termites in a single day

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    Great white sharks can detect a drop of blood in 25 gallons (100 litres) of water and can even sense tiny amounts of blood from 3 miles (5 km) away

    Only 5% of cheetah cubs survive to adulthood

    A tigers rear legs are so powerful, that they have been found remaining to stand even after death

    Trained pigeons can tell the difference between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

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    The Peacock Mantis shrimp can throw punches at 50 MPH , accelerating quicker than a .22 bullet

    Dragonflies and damselflies form a heart with their tails when they mate

    Red-eyed tree frogs can hatch early if they sense danger

    Blue jays can mimic hawk’s call to scare away other birds

    All clownfish are born male but they can turn female

    Male Ring-tailed lemurs will “Stink fight” by wafting scent at each other until one backs off

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    Ducks like to surf

    Bald eagles sound so silly that Hollywood dubs their voices

    According to “Time”, the annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York

    Female bats give birth to babies upside down, catching the babies with their wings as it drops

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    Ghost crabs growl using teeth in their stomachs

    Female lions do 90 percent of the hunting

    Puffins use twigs to scratch their bodies

    Cowbirds use secret passwords to teach their young

    Humpback whales use bubbles to hunt

    Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day

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    Octopuses can taste with their arms

    Sloths can take up to a month to completely digest a single leaf

    Each worm has both male and female organs.

    A chameleon’s tongue is at least as long as it’s body but it can grab prey in a fraction of a second

    A flea can jump distances 200 times their body length. It’s equal to a human jumping as high as the Empire State Building in New York

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    My name is Aelita and I have been an Editor for Bored Panda since 2019. I spend my days working with my amazing team and making articles the best they can be. Fantasy and magic have always ruled over my world, from movies to TV shows, to Video Games to tabletop games like Dungeos and Dragons, I try to find magic in every part of my life. Writing is a big part of me too, I hope to publish a fantasy novel one day. I also enjoy playing guitar and singing, as music always help me to get in a great mood. I have an adorable German Shepherd named Hela and we get into all kinds of adventures together.

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    Bellatrix Lestrange
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to point out that it's not just clownfish that can change gender. Many another fish can too and some amphibians.

    Blade the gallade
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also if you want to email me, my personal email is doomant678@gmail.com. Also I never leave an email unread, I cannot stand it whenever I have the little red notification dot, so there is a good chance I will respond within the hour.

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    Bellatrix Lestrange
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to point out that it's not just clownfish that can change gender. Many another fish can too and some amphibians.

    Blade the gallade
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also if you want to email me, my personal email is doomant678@gmail.com. Also I never leave an email unread, I cannot stand it whenever I have the little red notification dot, so there is a good chance I will respond within the hour.

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