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Animal Facts

Amazing, odd and wonderful facts.

Nature is full of strange and brilliant surprises. Here are some of our favourite animal facts.

🐦 Did you hear about the hummingbird that has a beak longer then it's body?

🐨 Or the koala that spends 22 hours of the day asleep?

🦩 Flamingos aren't just pink on the out side they are also pink on the inside.

🐔 Have you ever heard of the chicken who lived 18 months without a head

🐙 Octopus die after giving birth.

🐌 Snails have teeth lots of them over 10,000.

🦛 Hippos can't swimm they only sink.

🦑 A cuttlefish can change colour in 200 milliseconds as fast as you blink.

🐒 Drinking alcohol isn't just a human habit animals enjoy it too like chimpanzees are known for raiding stocks.

🦘 A smiley animals is a Quokka they are kind, generous and have a big heart.

🦥 It takes sloths up to a month to digest a whole leave.

🦀 Some crabs have teeth inside the stomach.

🐅 Tiger skin is also stripped as well as there fur.

🦦 Otters have the world's thickest coat.

🐙 A octopus has 3 hearts.

🐋 A blue wales tongue weighs as much as a elephant.

🐷 Pigs are exceptionally intelligent.

🦩 A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

🐄 Cows have best friends.

🦑 Male seahorses give birth.

🦦 Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.

🦩 Flamingoes heads have to be upside down to eat.

🦦 Female ferrets die if they don't mate once they go into heat.

🐬 Only half a dolphins brain sleep at a time.

🪳 A cockroaches brains is in its body.

🦒 Giraffes are 30 times more likely to get hit by lightning than people.

🪰 Fleas can jump 350 it's body length.

🐦 Humming birds are The only birds that can fly backwards.

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