Animals Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about creatures big and small
Honeybees can learn to recognise human faces, using the same 'holistic' processing method that humans use to tell people apart.
Male Gentoo penguins propose to females by presenting them with a carefully chosen pebble. If she accepts, they use the pebbles to build a nest together.
Vampire bats show remarkable kindness: if a bat fails to find food, a roost-mate that fed successfully will regurgitate some blood to keep its neighbour from starving.
Lions sleep or rest for up to 20 hours a day to conserve energy, doing most of their hunting during cooler nights.
Chameleons can move each eye independently, giving them a near-360-degree field of view and the ability to look in two directions at once.
The box jellyfish has 24 eyes arranged in four clusters, including eyes with true lenses remarkably similar to our own, though it has no brain to process the images.
Dogs have such a powerful sense of smell that trained medical dogs can detect certain cancers in humans with accuracy rates above 90%.
Sloths move so slowly that algae grows on their fur, giving them a greenish tint that acts as camouflage in the rainforest canopy.
A moose's antlers are among the fastest-growing tissues in the animal kingdom, growing at up to 2.5 centimetres per day during summer.
Coyotes can run at speeds of up to 64 kilometres per hour and are clever enough to adapt to city environments, living in most major North American cities.