Animals Facts for Kids
Amazing facts about creatures big and small
A group of ferrets is called a 'business'. Ferrets sleep up to 18 hours a day and are crepuscular, meaning they are most active at dawn and dusk.
Some bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, wear sea sponges on their snouts while foraging on the sandy seafloor — a learned tool-use behaviour passed through generations.
The blobfish only looks like a saggy blob when brought to the surface. At its natural depth of 900 metres, water pressure holds its shape perfectly.
Monarch butterflies migrate up to 4,000 kilometres from Canada to Mexico every autumn, navigating by the angle of the Sun and Earth's magnetic field.
Great white sharks have no natural predators in the ocean — except for orcas, which have been observed flipping sharks upside down to induce a paralysed state called tonic immobility.
About 80% of an electric eel's body is taken up by its electricity-generating organs. Its vital organs are all compressed into the front 20% of its body.
Penguins do have knees — they are just hidden inside the body under feathers. Their legs are shorter than they appear because the knee joint is completely internal.
Koalas have fingerprints virtually identical to human fingerprints — so similar that even forensic experts have been fooled at crime scenes.
Puffer fish inflate themselves by rapidly gulping water, swelling to up to three times their normal size to deter predators. Their organs contain a poison 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide.
A newborn kangaroo joey is only about 2.5 centimetres long — roughly the size of a jellybean — and crawls unaided into its mother's pouch to continue developing.