Did you know...? African Animals 2

Did you know ... gorillas and chimpanzees use thin sticks to pluck termites out of termite mounds.

Did you know ... 1000 migrating birds need wetlands to survive. Because those birds need them for hunting food.

Did you know ... ostriches are 2.8 meters tall and weigh up to 140kg.

Did you know ... yellow-billed storks have a long bill for catching fish and long legs to walk through the swamp water.

Did you know ... crocodiles make tunnels and dens for their babies to keep them away from predators.

Did you know ... wildebeest (or gnus) migrate every year 2900km. Its called The Great Migration and they do it along with zebras, gazelles, etc. 

Did you know ... African painted dogs have more possibilities to kill prey than lions or hyenas !!!

Did you know ... In the wild, reaching 53 °C in body tem perature, desert ants from the Sahara desert are heat-tolerant land animal. 

Did you know ... the Saharan silver ant can reach speeds of 1.8 km / h or 100 times their body length per second. It's fast for an ant though for a human it isn't !!!

Did you know ... the Fennec fox is the smallest species of fox, mostly found in Algeria and Tunisia. It has the same body size of a domestic cat.

Did you know ... mole rats can resist diseases such as cancer and many scientists are currently studying them to try and find a cure to cancer.

Did you know ... ostrich males can roar like lions !!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Did you know ... ostriches can run faster than horses.

Did you know ... blue-eyed lemurs are the only primates with blue eyes apart from humans.

Did you know ...  the Kaa' caterpillar can kill an antelope with a bit of its venom.

Did you know ... leopards can give birth to black leopards more commonly known as black panthers.

Did you know ... the animal that can smell water from 3 miles away is the elephant.

DID YOU KNOW...? African Animals 1

Did you know... when zebras run together, their stripes confuse predators because no two zebras have the same stripes meaning that predators don't know which one to attack first.

Did you know... that ostriches have the second largest eyes of any animal and have the largest eyes of any land animal but there brain's the size of a peanut !!!!!

Did you know... lemurs only live in Madagascar and nowhere else in the world.

Did you know... mini chameleons can fit on your fingertip !!

Did you know ... a fossa is as long as a man is tall. Fossas are known to eat lemurs.

Did you know... people hunt African elephants for their ivory. This is called poaching.

Did you know... the largest land animal is the African elephant and they live in 37 different countries of Africa.

Did you know... in the early 1900s there were around 3-5 million African elephants. However, in the 1980s, there was a huge massacre and a 100,000 elephants were killed each year for that decade. Now, there are only 415,000 left and decreasing.

Did you know... African elephants can weigh up to 6 tonnes and be as tall as 3.4 meters.

Did you know... the Goliath frog is known to be the largest living frog on Earth and can be 32cm long.

Did you know... penguins can live in Africa. They really love the hot weather, a bit like tourists!!

Did you know... the cheetah is the fastest land animal. Cheetahs run at speeds of 70-75mph in only 3.5 seconds, though they can only maintain it for 20-30 seconds.

Did you know... aardvarks can eat in one meal 50,000 ants!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aardvarks also eat a special fruit called the aardvark cucumber which grows underground.

Did you know... from 8 km away a lion's roar can be heard.

Did you know... if a human ate 190 half-pound stakes per day it would be equivalent to what a male lion eats per day!!!!!

Did you know... lions have a white line under their eye which helps lions see 8 times better than humans at night

Did you know... leopard cubs are born blind but they get their vision after a few days.

Did you know...? Artic/Antarctic Animals

Did you know... lots of animals that live in cold places (eg. Seals, polar bears,  etc.) have blubber to keep them warm.

Did you know... Greenland sharks can live up to 515 years.

Did you know... that Polar bears have transparent skin.

Did you know... Polar bears do not live in Antarctica. 

Did you know... Arctic foxes camouflage with their surroundings by molting its fur. It's white in winter and black-brown in summer.

Did you know... Southern Elephant seals weigh 3,500 kg and are 5m tall. They weigh more than seven grand pianos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... female Adélie penguins travel more than 13,000km for food.

Did you know... Arctic terns can sleep while flying. Each year they migrate from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. That's equivalent to 3 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Did you know... the Snowy owl feeds on small birds and mammals. It lives in the Arctic regions of Eurasia and North America making it the most northerly owl.

Did you know... Polar bears in Hudson Bay have territories the size of Germany!!!!

Did you know... Polar bears are the largest type of bear.

Did you know... Leopard seals attack humans for no reason making them the most dangerous type of seal.

Did you know... a Narwhal tusk is actually a tooth. Only males have tusks.

Did you know... a Musk ox's underwool is 8 times warmer than sheep wool.

Did you know... Arctic ground squirrels can survive sub-zero temperatures.

Did you know... the longest underwater dive for a bird is 32min 12s by an Emperor penguin.

Did you know... the most common type of penguin lives in the Antarctic Peninsula. There called the Macaroni penguin.

Did you know... a walrus's tusk is actually its canine tooth.

Did you know... adult Svalbard reindeer are the smallest subspecies of reindeer.