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30 Interesting Facts Of Animals For Both Kids And Adults

16. African wild dogs have been caught “voting” on when it is time for the pack to stop laying around and get moving again. They do this by sneezing.

Wild dogs photographed with BeetleCam, South Luangwa, Zambia.

17. Meerkats are a cooperative and solid community. They have helper meerkats that help in babysitting pups for the first month of the pups’ lives.

18. The Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) was born with iridescent, green feathers. These mean a lot to these birds, helping them camouflage among the canopy leaves.

19. To an otter, the tail is one of its most important assets. These animals use their tails to steer and propel itself forward when underwater.

20. Research shows that Inca Terns with longer mustaches produce healthier offspring!

21. Sunfish is among some of the largest fish in the ocean. They bear little babies that can fit on your fingertips!

22. The Rufous Rat-kangaroo is the largest member of the potoroid family of marsupials.

23. Araripe Manakin is an endemic species that comes by the Portuguese name “soldadinho-do-araripe” (means “little soldier of Araripe”) with its helmet-like crown.

24. Greta oto is also called glasswing butterflies. They have transparent wings that help them camouflage without extensive colouration effectively. Despite of delicate-looking wings, these butterflies they can carry up to 40 times their own weight!

25. Greater gliders is another Australian animal that feeds mainly on eucalyptus leaves, along with Koala. They are also the largest of the glider species in Australia.

26. The Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava) has the shortest tail of the European wagtails.

27. The Portuguese man-of-war is not a jellyfish, it’s not even an “it,” but a “they.” The Portuguese man-of-war is a siphonophore, an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together.

28. Olde (mean “great-grandmother,” in Danish), a gentoo penguin has lived 41 years, 141 days old as of Oct. 4 of this year. Till this time, she goes beyond the usual 30-year lifespan for a member of her species in captivity. She’s lived longer than a female African penguin named Tess who died at the age of 40.

29. This American Pika is found in the mountains of western North America, usually in boulder fields at or above the tree line. These quite rotund fellows are herbivorous, smaller relatives of rabbits and hares.

30. In a conservation-breeding program to save California Condors, adult condor puppets were used to mimic the warm embrace of their mother’s wings. This helped prevent them from becoming acclimated to people once they were safely released into the wild.

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