Get ready for your next trivia night with these fun facts about the animal kingdom.
Trained pigeons can tell the difference between the paintings of Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet .
A peacock mantis shrimp âs punch accelerates quicker than a .22-caliber bullet.
It contains about 3 percent alcohol by volume.
The fantastic beasts are neither deer nor mice .
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Females are peahens .
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Elephantsâthey're just like baby humans.
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The patterns of a tiger âs stripes are as unique as a fingerprint.
Donât worry, you wonât see any galloping crocodiles in the Kentucky Derby .
Grizzly bears are incredibly powerful animals.
They do this so they donât drift apart .
Think of it as the rodent version of a handshake .Â
Animal behaviorists have concluded that cats meow to get attention from humans.
The adorable rodents live in Africa.Â
Flamingos â diet of brine shrimp and algae turns them pink.
Alberta is the only province in Canada that doesnât have rats.
They can hatch days before their anticipated hatch date.
They can sprint at speeds up to 30 mph.
They do this to scare away other backyard birds .
The swans are just one of many surprising things Queen Elizabeth owns .
Some turn female to enable mating
Their moray eels ' second set of jaws extends from their throats.
24. The Axolotl can regenerate its limbs.
The amphibians can even rebuild their brains .
Contrary to popular advice , people should not do this to escape an alligator.
Anteaters use their super long tongues to eat bugs, which they crush with their stomach muscles.
Fruit bats have excellent senses of sight and smell.
They use perfume as a weapon and waft scent at each other.
A lynx âs large paws enable them to run on very deep snow.
He was sentenced for killing the governorâs cat, and was just one of several animals involved in crimes .
Itâs a diplomatic way for them to handle aquatic traffic jams .
Itâs the only armadillo species found in the U.S.
A study found that the carnivores are â sweet blind .â
Ducks have been observed riding tides , then swimming back to ride them again.
This is because it makes donkey-like braying sounds .
This may be because they donât have many taste buds.
Someone should create a buzzing public health STI-awareness campaign to help save the honeybees .
Unlike most teeth, a narwhal âs tusk is soft and sensitive on the outside with a tough interior.
Whales in that region use a distinct acoustic pattern .
Wombats like to put their unusually shaped poop cubes atop places where theyâre easy to see.
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Those majestic screeches you see in movies featuring bald eagles ? Those are hawk vocals.
In 1985, for instance, people reported 1591 human bite attacks , whereas there were only 12 shark-caused injuries that year.
They catch the pup in their wings as it drops.
They sleep in a tiny ball to protect their bills.
Their very distant relative came from India.
Just like you may be allergic to cat dandruff, a cat may be allergic to your dandruff.
This is despite their lack of visible ears .
Unfortunately, lions were hunted to extinction in Europe around 100 BCE.
Platypus arenât the only venomous mammals.
This article was originally published in 2016; it has been updated for 2022.
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