Did you know...? Asian Animals

Did you know... snowy monkeys (Japanese macaques) will eat anything, even soil!!!!

Did you know... that snow monkeys can swim up to 1km and a half. They also wash their food before eating it.

Did you know... snow monkeys can develop their own and unique culture!!!!!!!!

Did you know... snow monkeys can live 2.92608km above sea level.

Did you know... snow monkeys really love to kick back and relax inside hot springs.

Did you know... the siamang is a type of gibbon. Did you also know it can inflate its  vocal sac to the size of its head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... Red pandas are actually in the racoon family not in the panda one.

Did you know... elephant cubs have reddish eyes after birth.

Did you know... the puma (cougar, mountain lion, etc.) has more than 40 names in English language.

Did you know... a newborn Giant panda is about 1/900th of their mother's size.

Did you know... the black snub-nose monkey is the highest living monkey.

Did you know... the chiru has hairs that are 7-10 micrometers long.

Did you know... a Snow leopard has a tail that is around 1m long.

Did you know... Snow lizards give birth to live young, which is a very unusual among reptiles.

Did you know... Siberian ibexes live in places 6,700m high.

Did you know... jerboas have legs a bit like a kangaroo's. They can jump 3m into the air to escape predators.

Did you know... Siberian tigers are the largest tiger and wild cat.

Animal Dictionary

ANIMAL DICTIONARY

WRITE IN THE COMMENTS THE WORDS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND AND WE'LL EXPLAIN THEM! 

CHIRU: A TIBETAN GAZELLE THAT HAS SANDY-COLORED FUR AND BLACK HORNS

JERBOA: A DESERT-DWELLING RODENT WITH VERY LONG HIND LEGS LIKE KANGAROO'S

WING SPAN: THE  MAXIMUM EXTENT ACROSS THE WINGS OF A BIRD OR OTHER FLYING ANIMAL (MANTA RAYS LIVE IN THE WATER BUT THEIR FINS LOOK LIKE WINGS. THAT'S WHY THEY HAVE WINGSPAN), MEASURED FROM TIP TO TIP.

THUNDERCLAP: IS A  SHORT LOUD NOISE THAT YOU HEAR IN THE SKY JUST AFTER YOU SEE A FLASH OF LIGHTNING

DECIBEL(dB): A UNIT TO MEASURE THE INTENSITY OF SOUND

Did you know... ? Ocean Animals

 Did you know... Sperm whales eat Giant squids and to find them they have to dive 1 km deep every day. They can hold their breath for an hour and a half(90 minutes) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... the whale shark is the the largest fish as well as the largest shark.

Did you know... Great White sharks are said to be descendants of the Megalodon!!!!!!!!

Did you know... that the Megalodon is the largest shark.

Did you know... that the lion's mane jellyfish is the heaviest type of jellyfish.

Did you know... a Cusk eel is the deepest living fish.

Did you know... the deepest dive by a mammal is by a Cuvier's beaked whale.

Did you know... in November 2016, there were 30 vaquitas (a type of porpoise) in the wild.

Did you know... that in 1999 there was a bowhead whale aged 211 years old, the longest age for a mammal.

Did you know... Spinner dolphins can rotate in the air more than any other dolphins.

Did you know... the largest eye of any animal is the one of a Giant Squids.

Did you know... that there's an octopus called the Dumbo octopus, yes, like the Disney character!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... that adult Sunfish weigh 1,000kg. The heaviest one found was 2,300!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... Shortfin Makos are the fastest sharks. They can leap 6m out of the water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... a Sperm whales echolocation clicks are 236dB, 44 times louder than a thunderclap.

Did you know... a Manta ray's wingspan is wider than a tennis court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you know... the largest cuttlefish is the giant cuttlefish.

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.