Amazing Facts about animals are here for your astonishment• Did you know - The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!• A Cat can run about 20 kilometers per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy!• A Cheetah does not roar like a lion. It purrs like a cat (meow).• The original name for the Butterfly was flutterby!• The largest Frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as eggs often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.• No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebra’s enemies include hyenas, wild dogs and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.• About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.• A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.• A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.• A zebra is white with black stripes.• Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using echolocation. The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.• The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.• The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.• The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
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