The animal world is so diverse that no matter how we study it, we always learn something new. In this list you will learn about unusual, strange animals, some of which are sometimes very similar to humans.

1. In Sweden they hold a jumping competition among rabbits, and it is called “Kaninhoppning”.

The atmosphere is quite tense - just look at those faces.

2. The furry paws of the fennec fox (miniature fox) play the role of skis or snowshoes, protecting them from the hot desert sand.

3. The snow leopard uses its tail as a portable fluffy scarf to keep warm when it's very cold.
In addition, its tail allows for better balance and contains fat. When he sleeps, the snow leopard puts his tail on his head to keep him warm.

4. If you shave a guinea pig, it will look a lot like a hippopotamus.

5. The tail of a red panda can reach a length of 48 cm (the length of a regular domestic cat).

6. Young macaques can make snowballs for fun.
When it snows, these cute creatures start making snowballs just for fun.

7. Squirrels can adopt an abandoned baby squirrel if its parents have died or are unable to care for it.

8. Bees communicate with each other through dance.
Bees perform a waggle dance when they want to inform their comrades about the location of flowers.

9. Gentoo penguin proposes to his partner using a pebble.

10. A pair of seahorses live together for the rest of their lives. When they swim, the skates hold each other's tails.

11. Bristletooths also form a lifelong alliance. If for some reason they become separated, they float above the coral reef and look for each other.

12. Chicks that have not yet hatched communicate with each other and with their mother.
About a day before it hatches, you can hear the chick squeaking. When mom hears a squeak, she begins to cackle in response, thereby calming the excited chick.
There are about 24 sounds that chickens make from eggs when communicating with each other.

13. Otters hold on to each other while sleeping so as not to swim away from each other.

14. Due to the fact that squirrels forget where they hid the nuts they collected, up to several hundred nuts can accumulate in trees.

15. Arctic bears rub their noses together to ask other bears, for example, where they can find food.
This gesture is considered good manners and is often shared with those who use it.

16. Cows are the best friends, and they spend most of their time with their friends.

17. Dolphins have names for each other.

18. Crows can play pranks on each other for fun.
These creatures are very smart and even know how to play a joke on someone, not only on another crow, but also on another representative of the animal world.

19. In Japan, macaques know how to use vending machines. They can buy various goods using the coins they match.

20. During a mock fight, the male puppies allow the girls to “win.” They do this to get to know each other better.

21. Baby chimpanzees play with sticks and stones the same way children play with dolls. They imagine babies who need to be looked after.

22. Rats and mice can laugh. In addition, they are afraid of tickling, which means you can only see them laugh by tickling them.

23. Otters have a flap of skin that forms a pocket. In this pocket, the otter can store a favorite pebble, which it uses to get shellfish for food. Some otters carry a pebble with them throughout their lives.

24. Ants are very polite creatures - they bow to say hello.
When one ant passes another, they give each other a slight nod to indicate each other's presence and say hello.

25. Once in Norway, a penguin was knighted and given the name Colonel Sir Nils Olav.

26. Goats have accents, just like people.

27. This baby is called the pig-nosed bat, and this is the smallest bat, and the smallest mammal in the world - body length 2.9 - 3.3 cm, forearm length 22 - 26 mm, weight 1.7 - 2 g.

28. Dogs sneeze to tell other dogs that they are being friendly.
When one dog gets into a friendly fight with another, it sneezes to tell its “rival” that they are just fooling around. This prevents the situation from getting out of control and turning into a real fight.

Animals are amazing creatures and our best friends. How many interesting facts do you know about our little brothers?

1. To produce kilograms of honey, a bee must fly around 2-4 million flowers. To obtain 1 kg of honey, bees must fly around 2-4 million flowers and bring 120-150 thousand noshes to the hive, 40-50 mg of nectar each, but the longer they fly after it, the less they bring to the hive; for 3 km of flight, 70% of the nectar is consumed, it “burns” in the bee’s body, compensating for the energy resources it has spent; This is why it is customary to place bees in close proximity to honey plants.
2. Breastfeeding a baby is not at all an easy task for whales. After 10-12 months, small whales are born in the womb, up to a third the size of an adult whale (and in the case of the Blue Whale, this is 10 meters). The mother uses her muscles to splash the milk into the baby's mouth, which holds tightly to the nipple (yes, whales have them). The fat content of whale milk is about 50%, which is 10 times the fat content of human milk. Accordingly, the cubs grow, gaining up to 90 kilograms per day.
3. Pigeons can fly thousands of kilometers and still end up exactly where they were going. And the Arctic tern flies more than 40,200 kilometers a year. Many birds use ferromagnets built into them by wise nature to navigate along the Earth's magnetic fields. But a 2006 study showed that pigeons also remember noticeable features on the ground and navigate by them.
4. Research in recent years has shown that moles, oddly enough, have quite acute, albeit limited, vision. And they most often do not like what they see, since the penetration of light usually means that a predator has entered the hole. So the expression “blind as a mole” has nothing to do with reality.
5. The giraffe's brain is about 5 meters above its body. It is quite obvious that with such an original design of the neck, the problems of delivering blood to a vital organ must somehow be solved. Not only is the heart of giraffes twice as strong as that of cows, but the unique structure of the veins prevents a sudden rush of blood when lowering the head down. And the skin of the legs should be unusually stretched so as not to allow blood to stagnate in the legs.
6. The eyes of lizards are equipped with orange glasses, because... there are a lot of fat droplets in the retina, colored orange. This is where it turns out that these animals have light filters. This means that lizards see the world differently than we do. And not just lizards. To many birds, what we see as red appears green.
7. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard. The first giraffe was brought to Europe by Gaius Julius Caesar in 46 BC. e. . In modern times, the first giraffe brought in was in 1827 an animal named Zarafa, which gave the species its name.
8. The weight of an ostrich egg can reach 1.5 kg.
9. During the First World War, one of the South African monkeys received a medal and was even awarded the military rank of corporal.
10. Rats appeared on Earth 48 million years earlier than humans.
11. There are about 400 breeds of domestic dogs on Earth.
12. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
13. Moth moths have caterpillars that live in water and gnaw on aquatic plants.
14. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.
15. About 70 percent of living things on Earth are bacteria.
16. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!
17. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
18. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.
19. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.
20. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.
21. Despite the hump, the camel's spine is straight.
22. Sharks are immune to cancer.
23. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.
24. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.
25. Hippos are born underwater.
26. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.
27. A mole can dig a tunnel 76 meters long in one night.
28. The snail has about 25,000 teeth.
29. The black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.
30. When there is not enough food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight.
31. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.
32. It takes 40 minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
33. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.
34. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.
35. Hummingbirds cannot walk.
36. The moth has no stomach.
37. The Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”
38. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.
39. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
40. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.
41. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.
42. No new animals have been domesticated in the last 4,000 years.
43. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.
44. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.
45. The word "orangutan" means "jungle man" in some African languages.
46. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.
47. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.
48. Crocodiles swallow rocks to dive deeper.
49. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.
50. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.
51. Goshawks are not found in only one European country - Iceland.
52. Chameleons can throw out their tongue a distance equal to half the length of their body. In addition, its eyes are able to rotate independently of each other, so the chameleon can look in all directions at the same time without moving its head.
53. The electric generators of the South American electric eel can generate voltages of up to 1200 volts at a current of 1.2 A. This is enough to light six hundred-watt light bulbs.
54. Ferrets sleep up to 20 hours a day.
55. The French call the pigeon "flying rat".
56. Jackals have one more pair of chromosomes than dogs and wolves.
57. Tigers not only have striped fur, but also striped skin.
58. The gar fish has green bones.
59. A goat has a square pupil, and in some ungulates it looks like a heart.
60. The octopus has a rectangular pupil.
61. A horse has 18 more bones than a human.
62. Giraffes have the largest heart and the highest blood pressure of any land animal.
63. Giraffes have a completely black tongue, the length of which can reach up to 45 cm.
64. The blood temperature of fish in Antarctica can reach -1.7 degrees Celsius.
65. A whale's heart beats only 9 times per minute.
66. The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.
67. The penguin is the only bird that can swim but cannot fly. In addition, it is the only bird that walks standing.
68. In the Falkland Islands there are 350 sheep (700,000) per inhabitant (2000), and in New Zealand there are 20 sheep.
69. The leafcutter ant can lift and move loads up to 50 times its own weight.
70. The mass of an elephant's brain is approximately 0.27% of its body mass.
71. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
72. When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so happy that they fed them all to death.
73. One ostrich egg can make eleven and a half servings of omelettes.
74. An adult whale inhales 2400 liters of air in 2 seconds.
75. If a bat heard its call, which it uses to locate, unreflected, it would go deaf. Therefore, before emitting a locating cry, the mouse makes a squeak, which causes the muscles of the hearing aid to tense, and it perceives a loud cry normally.
76. Each bee hive contains 20 - 60 thousand bees. The queen bee lays almost 1,500 eggs per day and lives up to two years. Drones, whose only job is to help the queen, live up to 24 days and do not have a stinger. Worker bees (all sterile females) - usually work until death (about 40 days), collecting pollen and nectar.
77. There are 321 species of hummingbirds in the world (for example: sword-billed, ruby, ruby-headed, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, racket-tailed, giant (swallow-sized)
78. An iguana can stay underwater for up to 28 minutes.
79. A zebra is white with black stripes, not the other way around.
80. There are approximately 500 zoos in the world.
81. The caterpillar's body has more muscles than the human body.
82. Belize is the only country in the world where jaguars are protected by law. In this country, almost all species of animals are under state protection. These include not only jaguars, but also crocodiles, tapirs, monkeys, sea turtles, sea cows, whale sharks, some types of fish and other animals. There are over 300 species of birds alone. These are both sea birds and forest birds. Among the rare birds in Belize you can find the largest in the world - the Jabira from the ibis family. Its wingspan can reach 4 meters.
83. A rat can go without water longer than a camel.
84. A tit feeds its chicks a thousand times per day.
85. In ancient Egypt, the main pests of fields were not considered beetles or even locusts, but, oddly enough, hippos. The Nile is the main artery of life in Egypt. How nourishing and successful the year would be depended on the floods of the Nile, since the floods of the Nile brought magical silt to the fields of the peasants, which greatly increased the yield. And, at the same time, the Nile was swarming with hippopotamuses, which at night mercilessly destroyed the crops of the Egyptians.
86. The female armadillo has a unique ability. In stressful situations, it can delay childbirth for up to two years.
87. When attacking their prey, sharks close their eyes so that the struggling prey does not injure them.
88. A skunk cannot bite and smell at the same time.
89. The Mola Mola fish (or ocean sunfish) lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at a time.
90. The speed of movement of the snail is about 1.5 mm/sec.
91. A male emperor moth can sense and locate a female of his species from a distance of two kilometers.
92. A tiger has five toes on its front paws and four on its hind paws. Tiger claws reach a length of 8-10 cm.
93. A species of starfish called Lunckia columbiae can reproduce its entire body from a 1-centimeter-long particle.
94. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.
95. A flea can jump 33 cm in one jump. For comparison: if people had the same jumping ability, a person could jump 213 meters!
96. There are about 4,000 species of frogs and toads known on Earth.
97. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.
98. Hippos, after elephants, are the heaviest mammals on Earth. Their weight can reach 4 tons.

1. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.

2. Breastfeeding a baby is not at all an easy task for whales. After 10-12 months, small whales are born in the womb, up to a third the size of an adult whale (and in the case of the Blue Whale, this is 10 meters). The mother uses her muscles to splash the milk into the baby's mouth, which holds tightly to the nipple (yes, whales have them). The fat content of whale milk is about 50%, which is 10 times the fat content of human milk. Accordingly, the cubs grow, gaining up to 90 kilograms per day.

3. Pigeons can fly thousands of kilometers and still end up exactly where they were going. And the Arctic tern flies more than 40,200 kilometers a year. Many birds use ferromagnets built into them by wise nature to navigate along the Earth's magnetic fields. But a 2006 study showed that pigeons also remember noticeable features on the ground and navigate by them.

4. Research in recent years has shown that moles have quite acute, albeit limited, vision. And they most often do not like what they see, since the penetration of light usually means that a predator has entered the hole.

5. The giraffe's brain is about 5 meters above its body. It is quite obvious that with such an original design of the neck, the problems of delivering blood to a vital organ must somehow be solved. Not only is the heart of giraffes twice as strong as that of cows, but the unique structure of the veins prevents a sudden rush of blood when lowering the head down. And the skin of the legs should be unusually stretched so as not to allow blood to stagnate in the legs.

6. The eyes of lizards are equipped with orange glasses, because there are a lot of fat droplets in the retina, colored orange. This is where it turns out that these animals have light filters. This means that lizards see the world differently than we do. And not just lizards. To many birds, what we see as red appears green.

7. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.

8. The weight of an ostrich egg can reach 1.5 kg.

9. During the First World War, one of the South African monkeys received a medal and was even awarded the military rank of corporal.

10. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.

11. Rats appeared on Earth 48 million years earlier than humans.

12. There are about 400 breeds of domestic dogs on Earth.

13. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

14. Moth butterflies have caterpillars that live in water and gnaw on aquatic plants.

15. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

16. About 70 percent of living creatures on Earth are bacteria.

17. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!

18. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

19. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.

20. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.

21. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.

22. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.

23. Sharks are immune to cancer.

24. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

25. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.

26. Hippos are born under water.

27. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.

28. A mole can dig a 76-meter-long tunnel in one night.

29. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.

30. The black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.

31. When there is not enough food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight.

32. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.

33. It takes 40 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.

34. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.

35. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.

36. Hummingbirds cannot walk.

37. A moth has no stomach.

38. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”

39. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.

40. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

41. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.

42. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.

43. Over the past 4,000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.

44. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.

45. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.

46. ​​The word “orangutan” means “jungle man” in some African languages.

47. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.

48. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.

49. Crocodiles swallow stones to dive deeper.

50. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.

51. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.

52. Goshawks are not found in only one European country - Iceland.

53. Chameleons can throw out their tongue a distance equal to half the length of their body. In addition, its eyes are able to rotate independently of each other, so the chameleon can look in all directions at the same time without moving its head.

54. Electric generators of the South American electric eel can generate voltage up to 1200 volts at a current of 1.2 A. This is enough to light six hundred-watt light bulbs.

55. Ferrets sleep up to 20 hours a day.

56. The French call the pigeon a “flying rat.”

57. Jackals have one pair of chromosomes more than dogs and wolves.

58. Tigers not only have striped fur, but also striped skin.

59. The gar fish has green bones.

60. A goat has a square pupil, and in some ungulates it looks like a heart.

61. An octopus has a rectangular pupil.

62. A horse has 18 more bones than a human.

63. Giraffes have the largest heart and the highest blood pressure of any land animal.

64. Giraffes have a completely black tongue, the length of which can reach up to 45 cm.

65. The blood temperature of fish in Antarctica can reach -1.7 degrees Celsius.

66. The heart of a whale beats only 9 times a minute.

67. The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.

68. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly. In addition, it is the only bird that walks standing.

69. In the Falkland Islands there are 350 sheep (700,000) per inhabitant (2000), and in New Zealand there are 20 sheep.

70. A leaf-cutter ant can lift and move loads that weigh 50 times its own weight.

71. The mass of an elephant's brain is approximately 0.27% of its body mass.

72. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

73. When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so happy that they fed them all to death.

74. One ostrich egg can make eleven and a half servings of omelettes.

75. An adult whale inhales 2400 liters of air in 2 seconds.

76. If a bat heard its cry, with which it locates, unreflected, it would go deaf. Therefore, before emitting a locating cry, the mouse makes a squeak, which causes the muscles of the auditory apparatus to tense, and it perceives a loud cry normally.

77. Each bee hive contains 20 - 60 thousand bees. The queen bee lays almost 1,500 eggs per day and lives up to two years. Drones, whose only job is to help the queen, live up to 24 days and do not have a stinger. Worker bees (all sterile females) - usually work until death (about 40 days), collecting pollen and nectar.

78. There are 321 species of hummingbirds in the world (for example: sword-billed, ruby, ruby-headed, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, racket-tailed, giant (swallow-sized)

79. An iguana can stay underwater for up to 28 minutes.

80. A zebra is white with black stripes, not the other way around.

81. There are approximately 500 zoos in the world.

82. There are more muscles in the caterpillar’s ​​body than in the human body.

83. Belize is the only country in the world where jaguars are protected by law.

84. A rat can go without water longer than a camel.

85. A tit feeds its chicks a thousand times per day.

86. In ancient Egypt, the main pests of fields were considered not beetles or even locusts, but... hippos.

87. The female armadillo has a unique ability. In stressful situations, it can delay childbirth for up to two years.

88. When attacking their prey, sharks close their eyes so that the struggling prey does not injure them.

89. A skunk cannot bite and smell at the same time.

90. Mola Mola fish (or ocean sunfish), lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at a time.

91. The speed of movement of the snail is about 1.5 mm/sec.

92. A male emperor moth can sense and find a female of his own species from a distance of two kilometers.

93. A tiger has five toes on its front paws, and four on its hind paws. Tiger claws reach a length of 8-10 cm.

94. A species of starfish called Lunckia columbiae can reproduce its entire body from a 1-centimeter-long particle.

95. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.

96. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.

97. A flea can jump 33 cm in one jump. If people had the same jumping ability, a person could jump 213 meters!

98. About 4,000 species of frogs and toads are known on Earth.

99. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.

100. Hippos, after elephants, are the heaviest mammals on Earth. Their weight can reach 4 tons.

1. To make a kilogram of honey, a bee must fly around 2 million flowers.

2. Breastfeeding a baby is not at all an easy task for whales. After 10-12 months, small whales are born in the womb, up to a third the size of an adult whale (and in the case of the Blue Whale, this is 10 meters). The mother uses her muscles to splash the milk into the baby's mouth, which holds tightly to the nipple (yes, whales have them). The fat content of whale milk is about 50%, which is 10 times the fat content of human milk. Accordingly, the cubs grow, gaining up to 90 kilograms per day.

3. Pigeons can fly thousands of kilometers and still end up exactly where they were going. And the Arctic tern flies more than 40,200 kilometers a year. Many birds use ferromagnets built into them by wise nature to navigate along the Earth's magnetic fields. But a 2006 study showed that pigeons also remember noticeable features on the ground and navigate by them.

4. Research in recent years has shown that moles have quite acute, albeit limited, vision. And they most often do not like what they see, since the penetration of light usually means that a predator has entered the hole.

5. The giraffe's brain is about 5 meters above its body. It is quite obvious that with such an original design of the neck, the problems of delivering blood to a vital organ must somehow be solved. Not only is the heart of giraffes twice as strong as that of cows, but the unique structure of the veins prevents a sudden rush of blood when lowering the head down. And the skin of the legs should be unusually stretched so as not to allow blood to stagnate in the legs.

6. The eyes of lizards are equipped with orange glasses, because there are a lot of fat droplets in the retina, colored orange. This is where it turns out that these animals have light filters. This means that lizards see the world differently than we do. And not just lizards. To many birds, what we see as red appears green.

7. When Europeans first saw a giraffe, they called it a “camelback,” thinking that it was a hybrid of a camel and a leopard.

8. The weight of an ostrich egg can reach 1.5 kg.

9. During the First World War, one of the South African monkeys received a medal and was even awarded the military rank of corporal.

10. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.

11. Rats appeared on Earth 48 million years earlier than humans.

12. There are about 400 breeds of domestic dogs on Earth.

13. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

14. Moth butterflies have caterpillars that live in water and gnaw on aquatic plants.

15. The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

16. About 70 percent of living creatures on Earth are bacteria.

17. When young, Black Sea perches are mostly girls, but by the age of 5 they radically change sex!

18. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

19. The Tokyo Zoo closes for 2 months every year so that the animals can take a break from visitors.

20. Anteaters prefer to eat termites rather than ants.

21. When a giraffe gives birth, her baby falls from a height of one and a half meters.

22. Despite the hump, the camel’s spine is straight.

23. Sharks are immune to cancer.

24. A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

25. The animal that can go the longest without drinking is the rat.

26. Hippos are born under water.

27. Orangutans warn of aggression with loud burps.

28. A mole can dig a 76-meter-long tunnel in one night.

29. A snail has about 25,000 teeth.

30. The black spider can eat up to 20 spiders a day.

31. When there is not enough food, a tapeworm can eat up to 95 percent of its body weight.

32. The ancient Egyptians taught baboons to serve them at table.

33. It takes 40 minutes to hard-boil an ostrich egg.

34. Within a pride of lions, 9/10 of the prey is supplied to the “family” by lionesses.

35. Sloths spend 75% of their lives sleeping.

36. Hummingbirds cannot walk.

37. A moth has no stomach.

38. Europeans, having arrived in Australia, asked the aborigines: “What are these strange jumping animals you have here?” The Aborigines answered: “Kangaroo,” which meant: “We don’t understand!”

39. The easiest way to distinguish a vegetarian animal from a predator: predators have eyes located on the front of the muzzle to see the prey. Vegetarians have them on both sides of their heads to see the enemy.

40. The bat is the only mammal that can fly.

41. 99% of living creatures that lived on Earth became extinct.

42. The blood of a grasshopper is white, the blood of a lobster is blue.

43. Over the past 4,000 years, not a single new animal has been domesticated.

44. Penguins can jump more than one and a half meters in height.

45. Chimpanzees are the only animals that can recognize themselves in the mirror.

46. ​​The word “orangutan” means “jungle man” in some African languages.

47. Emu means "ostrich" in Portuguese.

48. Elephants and humans are the only mammals that can stand on their heads.

49. Crocodiles swallow stones to dive deeper.

50. Polar bears can run at a speed of 40 km/h.

51. A cat falling from the 12th floor has a better chance of surviving than a cat falling from the 7th floor.

52. Goshawks are not found in only one European country - Iceland.

53. Chameleons can throw out their tongue a distance equal to half the length of their body. In addition, its eyes are able to rotate independently of each other, so the chameleon can look in all directions at the same time without moving its head.

54. Electric generators of the South American electric eel can generate voltage up to 1200 volts at a current of 1.2 A. This is enough to light six hundred-watt light bulbs.

55. Ferrets sleep up to 20 hours a day.

56. The French call the pigeon a “flying rat.”

57. Jackals have one pair of chromosomes more than dogs and wolves.

58. Tigers not only have striped fur, but also striped skin.

59. The gar fish has green bones.

60. A goat has a square pupil, and in some ungulates it looks like a heart.

61. An octopus has a rectangular pupil.

62. A horse has 18 more bones than a human.

63. Giraffes have the largest heart and the highest blood pressure of any land animal.

64. Giraffes have a completely black tongue, the length of which can reach up to 45 cm.

65. The blood temperature of fish in Antarctica can reach -1.7 degrees Celsius.

66. The heart of a whale beats only 9 times a minute.

67. The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.

68. The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but cannot fly. In addition, it is the only bird that walks standing.

69. In the Falkland Islands there are 350 sheep (700,000) per inhabitant (2000), and in New Zealand there are 20 sheep.

70. A leaf-cutter ant can lift and move loads that weigh 50 times its own weight.

71. The mass of an elephant's brain is approximately 0.27% of its body mass.

72. A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

73. When the first batch of sparrows was brought from Europe to America in 1850, the Americans were so happy that they fed them all to death.

74. One ostrich egg can make eleven and a half servings of omelettes.

75. An adult whale inhales 2400 liters of air in 2 seconds.

76. If a bat heard its cry, with which it locates, unreflected, it would go deaf. Therefore, before emitting a locating cry, the mouse makes a squeak, which causes the muscles of the auditory apparatus to tense, and it perceives a loud cry normally.

77. Each bee hive contains 20 - 60 thousand bees. The queen bee lays almost 1,500 eggs per day and lives up to two years. Drones, whose only job is to help the queen, live up to 24 days and do not have a stinger. Worker bees (all sterile females) - usually work until death (about 40 days), collecting pollen and nectar.

78. There are 321 species of hummingbirds in the world (for example: sword-billed, ruby, ruby-headed, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, racket-tailed, giant (swallow-sized)

79. An iguana can stay underwater for up to 28 minutes.

80. A zebra is white with black stripes, not the other way around.

81. There are approximately 500 zoos in the world.

82. There are more muscles in the caterpillar’s ​​body than in the human body.

83. Belize is the only country in the world where jaguars are protected by law.

84. A rat can go without water longer than a camel.

85. A tit feeds its chicks a thousand times per day.

86. In ancient Egypt, the main pests of fields were considered not beetles or even locusts, but... hippos.

87. The female armadillo has a unique ability. In stressful situations, it can delay childbirth for up to two years.

88. When attacking their prey, sharks close their eyes so that the struggling prey does not injure them.

89. A skunk cannot bite and smell at the same time.

90. Mola Mola fish (or ocean sunfish), lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at a time.

91. The speed of movement of the snail is about 1.5 mm/sec.

92. A male emperor moth can sense and find a female of his own species from a distance of two kilometers.

93. A tiger has five toes on its front paws, and four on its hind paws. Tiger claws reach a length of 8-10 cm.

94. A species of starfish called Lunckia columbiae can reproduce its entire body from a 1-centimeter-long particle.

95. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.

96. Snakes can sleep for 3 years in a row without eating anything.

97. A flea can jump 33 cm in one jump. If people had the same jumping ability, a person could jump 213 meters!

98. About 4,000 species of frogs and toads are known on Earth.

99. Due to a mechanism that reflects light back to the retina, tigers' night vision is six times better than that of humans.

100. Hippos, after elephants, are the heaviest mammals on Earth. Their weight can reach 4 tons.

Interesting facts about animals for children tell us about things we couldn’t even suspect. Fish, birds, animals, insects are those representatives of the living world that make us wonder. The animal kingdom has always been a mystery to people, but now interesting facts from the life of animals make it possible to tell these secrets.

1. Mammals are so called because they feed their young with milk.

2. International name of mammals Mammalia.

3. About 5,500 species of mammals are known.

4. About 380 species live in Russia.

5. There are no mammals in the deep ocean.

6. Many mammals are attached to a specific habitat and are adapted to certain temperatures, humidity and food.

7. Mammals are characterized by viviparity.

8. They have a well-developed nervous system.

9. The skin of mammals is thick, with well-developed skin glands and horny formations: hooves, claws, scales.

11. Animals are eukaryotes, that is, their cells have nuclei.

13. Some domestic animals are no longer found in the wild, cows, for example.

14. India is home to 50 million monkeys.

15. For 1 sq. km of the steppe zone are home to more living beings than all the people on Earth.

16. The Border Collie tops the list of the smartest dogs.

17. Most of the animals on Earth are invertebrates - about 95%.

18. The number of known and studied fish is 24.5 thousand, reptiles – 8 thousand, and amphibians – 5 thousand.

19. There are 2,500 species of snakes on Earth.

20. Even in beds there are living organisms - these are dust mites.

21. Mammals have red blood, and insects have yellow blood.

22. There are about 750 thousand known species of insects, and 350 thousand species of spiders.

23. Insects breathe with their whole bodies.

24. Every year scientists find new species of animals.

25. There are about 450 species of snakes on the planet that are considered poisonous to humans.

26. There are only 1,200 Indian rhinoceros left in the world.

27. Animals' eyes glow in the dark due to the presence of a special layer behind the retina that reflects light.

28. More than 50% of domestic cats and dogs are overweight, perhaps this is due to poor diet and consumption of ready-made food.

29. The mammalian spine is divided into 5 sections, the cervical section has 7 vertebrae.

30. Scientists have found that a cat's memory for the presence of some obstacle is 10 minutes - if the pet is distracted, it forgets that the obstacle had to be overcome.

31. Snails can regrow a lost or bitten eye.

32. Scientists considered the bivalve mollusk to be the oldest animal; based on the rings on the shell, it was determined that it was 507 years old.

33. The noisiest animal in the world is the blue whale; its singing can deafen a person.

34. The size of a termite mound can reach 6 meters and takes up to a hundred years to build.

36. Pregnancy of a rat is 3 weeks, estrus occurs for 2-3 days, there are up to 20 pups in a litter. At two months, a rat pup is capable of producing new offspring.

37. There are birds that can fly backwards - these are hummingbirds.

38. Snakes cannot blink; their eyes are protected by fused eyelids.

39. Dolphins, like humans, have sex for pleasure.

40. The number of people killed by bees is much higher than by snake bites.

41. Ostrich egg is boiled for 1 hour.

42. An elephant has four knees.

43. Animals that cannot jump are elephants.

44. Pets can foresee certain events, especially unpleasant ones.

45. When a cat's pupil constricts, the brain is not involved in the process.

46. ​​The most eared animal is the Mongolian jerboa, the size of its ears is more than half the size of its body.

47. Elephants receive warnings of danger using their legs.

48. The legs of swifts are not designed for movement; having fallen to the ground, they can only crawl a short distance.

49. Fossa is an animal from the island of Madagascar, similar to a mixture of a puma and a civet.

50. The only surviving representative of the gharial, the Gangetic gharial, belongs to the crocodile family.

51. The stony harlequin toad lacks hearing and voice; they communicate by emitting and receiving sound waves of a certain frequency in the form of clicking sounds.

52. Monkeys can convey messages using gestures.

53. There are dogs that do not bark - these are Basenjis.

54. The Chow Chow dog has a purple tongue.

55. The African elephant is considered the largest mammal. The weight of a male can reach 7 tons and size up to 4 meters.

56. The tallest mammal on the planet is the giraffe.

57. The smallest mammal is the bat. Craseonycteris thonglongyai lives in Thailand, weighing up to 2 g.

58. The blue whale is the longest mammal.

59. A “Cat Cafe” was opened in New York, where visitors can chat with our smaller brothers.

60. There is a beach in Japan that is visited by owners with their dogs.

61. Dogs and cats rest on their toes, not their feet.

62. Scientists conduct social experiments on rats by analogy with human society.

63. The smallest bear is the Malayan, but it is one of the most aggressive among bears.

64. The pitahu bird has poisonous glands.

65. Crocodiles appeared 250 million years ago.

66. Hares are found almost everywhere except Antarctica and Australia.

67. If you cross a zebra with a domestic horse, you will get a hybrid called a zebroid.

68. The tsetse fly does not attack the zebra, it simply does not see it due to the combination of black and white stripes.

69. The weight of a polar bear can reach a ton, and its length can be up to 3 meters.

70. Bears are divided into four types: white, black, white-breasted, brown.

71. The heart of a giraffe weighs 12 kg, and the animal has very thick blood.

72. Cockroaches are able to withstand high doses of radiation and survive a nuclear explosion.

73. Bees transmit information to each other through dancing movements and are perfectly oriented in space.

74. Locusts are able to maintain a constant speed in flight due to the ability to rotate their wings and control the number of flaps, and fly 80 km a day.

75. An orangutan feeds its baby for 4 years.

76. The largest rodent is the capybara.

77. The kakapo bird cannot fly; to move, it plans in the air and climbs trees. This amazing animal feeds on the juice of berries and plants.

78. A kangaroo's tail is needed to maintain balance when jumping.

79. Each tiger has a unique arrangement of stripes, which can be equated to fingerprints.

80. Koalas feed exclusively on eucalyptus leaves.

81. Crows love to play and have fun, including with other animals.

82. Crocodiles swallow stones to maintain balance on the water and make it easier for them to dive.

83. The fat content of whale milk is 50%, it is the fattest milk on the planet.

84. Pudu is the smallest deer, its size reaches 90 cm in length.

85. The Japanese blenny is not a dog at all, but a fish that lives near the Korean Peninsula and the coast of Japan.

86. A guinea pig is not a pig or a waterfowl at all, its name comes from the word “overseas”, it is a rodent. In its homeland it is eaten.

87. Research by US scientists has led to the conclusion that cats are a threat to wildlife and reproduce at an incredible rate. They cause particular damage in areas where they historically did not exist before.

88. The substance castoreum is mined near the anus of beavers, which is used as an additive to perfumes and as a food additive.

89. Sexual maturity of female stoats occurs at 3 months, and for males only at 11-14 months, due to which the young female often mates with adult males while still in the burrow.

90. The Etruscan shrew weighs 2 grams and its heart beats at a rate of 1500 beats per minute.

91. The earth-moving rat has lost its molars and has weak incisors; it feeds on earthworms.

92. Birds can quite easily eat hot peppers and not react to its spiciness.

93. The water deer lives in China; it has no antlers, but has fangs.

94. Adult domestic cats use meowing to attract people, not to communicate with each other. Wild representatives do not meow at all.

95. To protect itself from enemies, the possum pretends to be dead, falls to the ground and emits a stench.

97. Contrary to popular belief, the bull does not attack the color red, but a moving object. Bulls do not distinguish colors.

98. Cheetah numbers are also declining because their genes are highly similar to each other and there is little diversity.

99. Pandas are disappearing due to the imperfection of their reproduction. Females are ready to mate once a year for 3 days; the successful period for fertilization ranges from 12 to 24 hours.

100. The largest leeches live in South America; their size reaches 45 cm, and they are capable of attacking animals.

1.Polar bears are the largest predators on the planet.

2. Hamsters spend the winter alone.

3. Before the onset of winter, wolves gather in packs.

4. A hedgehog’s body temperature drops by 2 degrees during hibernation.

5. Hedgehogs lose almost half of their body weight in winter.

6. Before hibernating, the bear rids its intestines of leftover food.

7.Weasel and ermine turn white in winter.

8.The number of crows in a flock in winter is from 200 to 300.

9. The beaver’s biological clock shifts by 5 hours in winter, and therefore winter is longer for them.

10. In winter, an ermine travels about 3 kilometers per day to find food for itself.

11.Polar bears run at a speed of 40 km/h.

12.Metabolic processes in a bear slow down during hibernation.

13. During hibernation, the bear’s fur and claws do not stop growing.

14.When everything is covered with snow in winter, the deer begins to rake it with its hooves.

15. Arctic foxes follow bears in winter, picking up food for them.

16.Walruses have a large layer of fat under their skin, which can protect them from the cold.

17. Beavers become “couch potatoes” when winter comes.

18. A polar bear is not cold even at -60 degrees.

19. Some fish living in the waters of Antarctica have blood temperatures that reach 1.5 degrees.

20. Leopard seals swim to the shores of Australia during winter.

1. Dolphins, just like people, have lungs, not gills.

2. Whales are able to hold their breath for 2 hours.

3. Fish constantly swallow water while breathing.

4.A horse makes about 8-16 breathing movements per minute.

5. When animals breathe, they consume oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

6. Land turtles hold their breath for a long time.

7.Iguanas hold their breath for up to 30 minutes.

8.Dolphins come to the surface to breathe.

9.Beavers hold their breath underwater for 45 minutes.

10. Raincoats, by holding their breath, conquer bodies of water.

1.A pink dolphin lives in the Amazon.

2.A tarantula may not eat for about 2 years.

3.Mosquitoes like children's blood most of all.

4. Sharks are never exposed to diseases.

5.The goldfish's memory lasts only 5 seconds.

6. Lions are able to mate about 50 times a day.

7.Aphids are born already pregnant.

8. The snail's genitals are on its head.

9.Only female kangaroos have a pouch.

10. One of the few representatives of the animal world who are born with teeth are hamsters.