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🌊 🦓 Gonna ride the Animal Fun Facts wave for a while, so if you want to disrupt your feed to learn a little bit about (A)ardvarks to (Z)ebras, and everything in between, give me a like, share + follow.

Our planet is full of beautiful creatures that we need to know and protect. 🌍💚
09:26 AM - Feb 06, 2023 (Edited)
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Fun Animal Fact: Cranes are one of the oldest species of animal currently alive on earth, with one crane fossil dating back 10 million years. This is a sand hill crane with a chick that still take 9-10 months to become independent.
#animals #cranes
07:17 PM - Mar 08, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Pseudomelanism is an extremely rare condition in zebras, resulting in mostly black fur with polka dots. It’s so rare, it’s only been seen a few times with only one specific individual officially on record - Tira, who lives happily in a National Reserve in Kenya. #animals #zebra
09:40 PM - Mar 07, 2023 (Edited)
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Fun Animal Fact: Let’s try something a little different. Do you know what this is? Bonus if you can also answer the “why” as well.

A like if you see this, a comment to guess and a comment + share to declare victory on the guess.

#animals #guessinggame
08:31 PM - Mar 06, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Sailfish use their sword-like beak to slash their prey when hunting. Their raised sail makes it more difficult for the prey fish to detect the sharp, incoming sword. They are also the fastest fish in the ocean - topping out at an astonishing 70 MPH!
#animals #swordfish
12:04 AM - Mar 05, 2023
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Fun Anomal Fact: The Hungarian Mangalica is a species of domestic pig with a wooly coat like a sheep! 🐖🐑
#animals #pig #sheep
09:39 PM - Mar 01, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Elephant Shrews are neither elephants nor shrews, but in fact, between the two, they are more closely related to elephants. Named for their trunk-like nose, they are native mostly to Southern Africa and are also exceptionally cute yawners.
#animals #elephant #shrew #yawn
08:46 PM - Feb 28, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Seahorses are small fish, known for the male incubating/hatching the eggs in his pouch, instead of the female. But did you also know they’re real slow? The Dwarf Seahorse is the slowest swimming of all fish - they clock in at a top speed of only 5 FEET per hour!
#animals #seahorse
10:37 PM - Feb 27, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama is also known as the Spider-Man lizard for the coloring seen here and their ability to rapidly scale vertical walls with ease. Wha-Bam!
#animals #Lizard #spiderman
08:41 AM - Feb 21, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Kiwi birds lay the largest egg in proportion to body size in the animal kingdom. For comparison, this would be as if humans gave birth 4-year-old kids. Eggcellent!
#animals #kiwi
10:39 AM - Feb 20, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Dogs can hear 4 times better than humans. Dogs also have 18 muscles in each ear compared to only 6 for humans, giving them superb motility.
#animals #dog #dogs
10:03 PM - Feb 19, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: The Muntjac Deer (also known as the barking deer) has special scent marking glands on their face. They can open these glands and completely invert them. See comments for more + a link to the bark.

#animals #muntjac
10:16 AM - Feb 19, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Giraffes have blue/black tongues to protect them from sunburn since they spend 12-15 hours eating around 75 lbs of leaves and twigs per day.
#animals #giraffes
12:46 PM - Feb 18, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: The Dogface Pufferfish, named for, well, its face that looks like a dog, has no scales and puffs up like a regular pufferfish. They also have a toxin that is 1000x more powerful than cyanide, so pet it we do not.
#animals #pufferfish #dogs
10:18 PM - Feb 17, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Research suggests that aardvarks have the best sense of smell in the entire animal kingdom. They have 9 olfactory bulbs - bones in their nose are shaped like scrolls covered with smell sensors. For comparison, dogs only have 4-5 olfactory bulbs.
#animals #aardvark #Africa
10:05 AM - Feb 17, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: This a biolleyana, a type of net-winged plant hopper with translucent wings.
01:02 PM - Feb 16, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: It’s World Hippo Day! This is a pygmy hippo + calf. They only weigh 400-600 lbs compared to the common hippo, weighing in at 3000-3500 lbs. Pygmy hippos are endangered, primarily by habitat loss, and only live in a few small areas on the West Coast of Africa.
#animals #hippo
07:59 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: The Vietnamese Mossy Frog looks like… well… moss! If their camouflage doesn’t work, they roll into a ball and play dead.
#animals #frogs
07:44 PM - Feb 15, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Gorillas and chimpanzees not only coexist, they form friendships! Studies show both species playing, foraging and occasionally squabbling together. Their relationships can be years long, with friends recognizing each other after long periods, giving special greetings.
#animals
10:07 AM - Feb 15, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Male anglerfish actually fuse to the much larger female, eventually sharing a circulatory system. The female gets sperm from the male and the male becomes a literal parasite for the rest of their lives. Below, a female with an attached male on her belly.
#animals #love #Valentine
06:45 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Roy and Silo were the first two male penguins on record to, as a pair, incubate, hatch and together raise a chick name Tango in captivity. Their story inspired the (often banned) children’s book, And Tango Makes Three.
#animals #love #Penguins
03:32 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: When male penguins fall in love, he searches far and wide for a pretty, smooth, perfect pebble. He then “proposes” to his mate with the pebble. If she approves, she puts the pebble in her nest, inviting him to stay as well.
#animals #FunFact #Penguins #love
03:25 PM - Feb 14, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Bald eagles were saved from the brink of extinction. In 1963, there were only 487 breeding pairs in the wild. In 2016 there were around 143,000 bald eagles, or over 70,000 pairs. The Endangered Species Act is highly credited with saving them. #animals #animalfacts #Eagles
09:58 PM - Feb 12, 2023 (Edited)
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Fun Animal Fact: Bald eagles are excellent swimmers!
#animals #animalfacts #Eagles
08:02 PM - Feb 12, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Bald eagles have a lifespan of 25-30 years in the wild, but one captive bird lived to be 50 years old.
#animals #Eagles #funanimalfacts
07:23 PM - Feb 12, 2023
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Fun Animal Facts: Is this a tiny blue dragon? No! That’s just its nickname. This is a Glaucus - a type of sea slug. They eat jellyfish, storing the jellyfish’s stinging cells in their own body. Then they use it to defend against predators. Small but mighty!
#animals #animalfacts #dragon #glaucus
08:17 PM - Feb 09, 2023
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A standing ovation for @cbouzy ! You easily rise above the rest! ❤️🐳
12:16 PM - Feb 08, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Secretary Birds have luxurious eyelashes! They are not made of hair like ours, but rather, a modified type of feather.
#animals #animalfacts #birds #luxury
11:42 AM - Feb 08, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Beavers teeth are orange, and not because they have poor dental hygiene. Some of their tooth enamel contains iron, which makes it wear away more slowly than the standard white enamel. This give them constantly chiseled, but orange teeth.
#animals #animalfacts #beaver
09:05 AM - Feb 08, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: Jellyfish not only existed before humans, they existed before dinosaurs, trees, fish and even fungi. They’ve existed for over 600 million years and will likely outlive the human race.
#animals #animalfacts #jellyfish
10:13 PM - Feb 07, 2023
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Fun Animal Fact: The glorious Blue Footed Boobie. Their feet change color depending on their health. Bright blue feet indicate a well fed bird + good immunity. Lady Boobies select males with the brightest feet as partners, then ditch them when brighter footed boobies come around.
#animals #boobie
08:49 PM - Feb 07, 2023
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