Animal Trivia
15,000-20,000 new animal species are discovered every year.
A butterfly has about 12,000 eyes.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Jellyfish are made up of 95% water.
Polar bears touch noses with one another when they greet each other.
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don’t drift away from each other.
Snakes can burp fire—only if the decomposing animal they eat bursts with methane and hydrogen while being digested.
A scorpion can hold its breath for 1 week.
Alpacas are known to spit when they get annoyed.
Horses use facial expressions to communicate with each other.
A rhino’s horn is made of hair.
10% of the bones in a cat are located in its tail.
Blue Whales are so large that their hearts are about 5 feet long and weigh 400 pounds and their tongues weigh as much as an elephant.
A shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes.
An octopus has 3 hearts.
You can hypnotize a frog—just place it on its back and gently
stroke its stomach!
It takes 2 weeks for a sloth to digest its food.
Kangaroos can’t fart.
A grizzly bear’s bite is so strong it can break a bowling ball!
About 50% of orangutans will have fractured bones due to falling out of trees.
Female lions doo 90% of the hunting.
If you tickle a rat, it will laugh.
Dogs sneeze when play fighting to show they are playing
and don’t wanna hurt you!
Cats only meow because it’s a way of communicating with humans.
Squirrels forget where they bury their nuts.
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.