Pangolins are strange Ant -Eating mammals.The name pangolin derives from the Malay word pengguling something that rolls. Pangolins are nocturnal and use their highly developed sense of smell to find insects. The long-tailed...
Pangolin Facts
Cuckoos Facts
The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The cuckoos are generally medium sized slender birds. Cuckoos don't bother making their own nests. Instead, they lay their eggs in other bird's nests. This...
Buffalo , Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis ) Amazing Facts
The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo 'Bubalus bubalis' .Buffalo are used as draft, meat, and dairy animals. Their dung is used as a fertilizer and as a fuel when dried. True wild water buffalo are thought...
Honeyguide Birds Facts -Amazing Facts
Most honeyguides are dull-colored, though a few have bright yellow in the plumage. All have light outer tail feathers, which are white in all the African species.Honeyguide birds follow honey badgers to find their favourite...
Ant Birds Facts
Ant birds are generally small birds with rounded wings and strong legs. Most have heavy bills, which in many species are hooked at the tip. They have mostly sombre grey, white, brown and rufous plumage. As of April 2008,...
Red Pandas Facts
Red pandas are distantly related to giant pandas. But they are smaller, and only the size of a domestic cat, but the big tail, thick add an additional 45 centimeters in length. Red pandas live in the mountains of Nepal and...
Sloth -Amazing Facts
The sloth is the slowest mammal in the world. Its bodily functions are so slow that it comes down to the ground to relieve itself once a week. Sloths move so slowly that even at top speed, they reach little more than one...
Dogs Amazing Facts
Dogs were first domesticated by cavemen in the Palaeolithic age and gradually developed into the breeds known today. The lifespan of a dog, on an average is between 8 to 15 years. The sweat glands of a dog are...
Opossums Facts
Mammals that have pouches on their tummies are called marsupials. Opossums are the only marsupials to be found outside Australia, They are found in America too. These animals are most famous for 'playing possum'. When...
Pygmy Hippos /hippopotamuses Facts
Pygmy hippopotamuses resemble hippopotamuses , but on closer examination, several differences can be noted. Pygmy hippopotamuses are smaller. They are more like a pig in shape and have smaller head and longer neck and legs....
Amazing Facts About Mustang and Przewalski's Horses
Mustang horses are probably the most well known type of wild horses, particularly within the United States. they are the descendents of the horses escaped and learnt to live in the wild. The name Mustang comes from...
Oarfish Facts
OARFISHThe oarfish does and it can grow to be as long as four canoes!! It is the longest bony fish and is found in all the world's oceans. Oarfish have a bright red fin along the length of their back. They swim upright through...
Capybara Facts -Amazing Facts
A larger capybara ( now extinct )called Neochoerus Pinckneyi once existed in North America, having invaded that continent during the Great American Interchange that followed formation of the Isthmus of Panama.Capybaras are...
Okapi Facts - Amazing Facts
The okapi is sometimes referred to as an example of a living fossil.The okapi was adopted as an emblem by the now defunct International Society of Cryptozoology. The tongue of the okapi is also long enough for the animal...
Bats ,Vampire Bats ,Flying Foxes and Bumblebee Bat Facts
Bats are the only mammals that can fly. They fly like birds do by beating the air with their wings. However, the bat's wing is not like a bird's wing at all. A bat's wings are actually its forelimbs that have grownvery long....
Raccoons Facts -Amazing Facts
A raccoon is one of the most facinating and among the most intelligent of wild animals. Raccoons are related to Pandas, but their tails are ringed. The most important sense for the raccoon is its sense of...
Tasmanian Wolf Facts
The tasmanian wolf was a marsupial that was striped like a tiger, had a thick tail like a kangaroo, and looked like a wolf... It was a remarkable animals that has now become extinct. Tasmanian wolves were shot by farmers...
Streaked Tenrec - Amazing Facts
Streaked Tenrec Streaked Tenrec Tenrecs are small mammals and many have greatly reduced tails and bodies covered with bristly hair or quills. around 30 species of tenrecs can be found on madagascar. Streaked tenrecs...
Rabbits, Hares and Pikas - Amazing Facts
One of the interesting facts is that rabbit's teeth never stop growing rabbits. It is said that the teeth (28 in total) growing at least one to five millimeters, every week. The growth rate may vary with different teeth...
Water Shrew Facts
The water shrew is one of the largest of the shrews. Its saliva contains venom that it uses to stun larger prey such as fish and frogs and prevents the prey from struggling. The salivary glands of one shrew contains enough...
Albatrosses Amazing Facts
Wide wings and long life, albatrosses are rarely seen on land and prefer to stay out on ocean, except to mate and raise their chicks. The albatrosses are a group of large to very large birds, they are the largest of the...
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