These cube shaped jellyfish have long tentacles and can be over 3m in length. Their toxin, delivered via stinging cells in their tentacles, is so potent that many die before they can even reach the shore. 24 59. The Japanese Spider Crab has the longest leg span of any arthropod. Koala need more sleep than most animals, because their diet of eucalyptus leaves contain toxins, are very low in nutrition, and high in fibrous matter – so they take a large amount of energy to digest! 15. Swifts spend most of their lives flying in the air, and can fly for almost an entire year, without ever landing. Mosquito outnumber every other animal in the world, apart from ants and termites. They can also be found in nearly every part of the world, which all add up in the risk they pose to humans. Here’s our big list of the 101 greatest animal facts. This includes some of the most asked, fun, surprising and crazy animal facts from across the animal kingdom. The loudest, deadliest, fastest, largest, most bizarre and random, are all here in our big animal fact list.

Animal Fun is an early childhood programme that focuses on improving both gross and fine motor skills as well as social emotional development in young children. Research informs us that the physical and mental health of young children is in decline. There are many tools available to assess children and determine areas of strength and weakness, but we wanted to take one step further and find a solution to any areas of concern that may arise following assessment. Our hope is that if children with motor or social emotional development issues are identified early enough that an early intervention programme such as Animal Fun will help them to improve and reach their full potential. There’s over 45,000 known spider species, with the venom of a few only known to be dangerous to humans. 33. The aptly named colossal squids eyes are as large as a basketball. Wojtek was brought by polish shoulders while in Iran. He was made an officer so that he was allowed rations and eventually was promoted to corporal. He helped out by carrying boxes of ammunition. 78. Horned lizards shoot blood out of their eyes. The three ‘ocelli’ eyes on the top of its head detect light, so the bee can sense if it’s being approached by a predator. 99. Giant vampire bats lived 100,000 years ago and had a wingspan of 50cm (20 inches). Or a human! Each two-toed foot has a long, sharp claw – making them formidable weapons. Animals often end up running away from the ostrich.Larabee FJ, Smith AA, Suarez A V. Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae. R Soc Open Sci. 2018;5(12). doi:10.1098/rsos.181447 Occupational Therapists and Paediatric Physiotherapists can use Animal Fun both in therapy sessions and to engage the support of parents/teachers to extend the practice of the skills outside of the clinic. A. Williams (2016). “These birds can fly almost 10-months without landing”, via National Geographic. The male gathers up all of the eggs once they’ve been fertilised and stores them in his mouth until they hatch. Amazingly despite this, some pufferfish meat is considered a delicacy in Japan. The meat called Fugu, is expensive and only prepared by licenced chefs with over 3 years of rigorous training who remove toxic parts of the meat for diners. 30. The loudest animal relative to size is the Water Boatman, which measures at just 12mm long, but can produce 99 dB of sound by rubbing its genitalia across its abdomen.

Tigers have been witnessed to have been shot, bled out, and died – and remained standing throughout. 49. A R hinoceros‘s horns are made of ‘keratin’, the same type of protein that makes up hair and fingernails. Wilcox C. Meet The Trumpapillar: The Venomous Caterpillar That Perfectly Mimics The Donald’s Hair | Discover Magazine. Accessed August 16, 2021. These huge birds are over a meter tall (up to 5 feet) and have a wingspan of more than 2 m (almost 8 feet!). Its name comes from its huge beak which is over 20cm long and almost that wide. Along with lungfish, it also eats baby turtles and baby crocodiles whole. It can take up to a month for a sloth to digest one leaf. Some sloths have a bowel movement once a week!

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They can be up to 20m long and weigh up to 80 tonnes. These giant whales dive down to almost 3,000m below the surface where they hunt giant squid. Giant squid can be the same size or bigger than sperm whales and will fight viciously with them. Adult whales can be seen with scars on their heads from the beaks of giant squid. 19 A study in the 90’s in the Serengeti found that 95% of cheetah cubs died before reaching adulthood. Many deaths were due to Lions, but also other predators and disease. 48. A tigers rear legs are so powerful, that they have been found remaining to stand even after death.

We spoke with Animal Fun's Director, Sue McLaren, to hear more about its applications, the importance of early intervention, and why children (and adults!) enjoy the magic of Animal Fun. Animal Fun was originally designed to be used primarily by Kindergarten and Pre-school classroom teachers – as we recognised that children spent a large portion of their day in these settings. Since launch, we have also found that many Child Care Centres and Allied Health professionals who work with young children have found the programme to be really beneficial.They use their acute sense of smell to detect blood using an organ called the ‘olfactory bulb’. 44. The Naked Mole-Rat can live in an almost zero oxygen atmosphere. Camels’ humps don’t actually hold water, but rather, fat. This helps regulate their body temperature during the climate of the desert (baking hot days and freezing cold nights). Greenland sharks are giant, reaching up to 5m in length, and live in the cold deep waters of the North Atlantic. They are rarely seen, and little is known about them. 22 That’s higher than 3 average sized men all stood on top of each other. This large species of hare can also run up to 35mph (55kph) when escaping predators. 15 35. Grey-headed Albatross can circle the globe in only 46 days. Bottlenose dolphins were used in both the Vietnam and the Gulf to detect enemy swimmers trying to plant explosives on ships. 32