Animal Facts

Here are some fun facts about animals of all kinds.
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The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
The quills of a porcupine are soft when they are born.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!
The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
The sting from a killer bee contains less venom than the sting from a regular bee!
The United States has never lost a war when donkeys were used.
The venom of a small scorpion is much more toxic than the venom of a large scorpion.
The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that just one gram of it can kill 150 people.
The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.
The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!
There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.
There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!
There are more than one million animal species on Earth!
There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.
There are no penguins in the North Pole.
There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.
There is a species of clam that can grow up to four feet long and weigh up to 500 pounds.
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