Animals Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about creatures big and small
Electric eels can produce up to 600 volts of electricity — enough to stun a horse — to hunt prey and defend themselves.
Honeybees perform a 'waggle dance' to tell their hive-mates exactly where to find flowers, communicating both direction and distance.
Cheetahs cannot roar like lions. Instead, they communicate with chirping sounds that resemble bird calls.
Crocodiles swallow stones, called gastroliths, which act as ballast to help them dive deeper and may also help grind up food.
Polar bear fur is not actually white — each hair is a clear, hollow tube that scatters light, making the fur appear white.
Starfish have no brain and no blood. They use seawater pumped through their body to move and carry nutrients.
Emperor penguins can dive to depths of over 500 metres and hold their breath for more than 20 minutes when hunting fish.
African elephants communicate using infrasound — vibrations too low for humans to hear — that can travel up to 10 kilometres through the ground.
A honeybee visits around 2 million flowers and flies roughly 88,000 kilometres to make just one jar of honey.
The platypus hunts underwater with its eyes closed, using thousands of electroreceptors in its bill to detect the electric fields of prey.