The aardwolf (alphabetically the second creature) are a monogamous species of hyena that mostly eats termites with their long sticky tongue. They will raise their cubs for up to a year as a pair, with the male watching the child for up to 6 hours a night while their mother finds food6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The aardvark, alphabetically the first animal, plays an important role in preventing wildlife deaths from fire. They dig large underground burrows that wildlife can hide in during fires.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Adult giraffes only sleep for a couple of minutes at a time. Baby giraffes will sleep for much longer periods of time with their head resting on their rump.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The burmese star tortoise is one of the few animals that have comeback from being called functionally extinct.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Badgers are fastidious animals. They dig a latrine seperate from their barrows, and have been known to hunt cooperatively with coyotes.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Flamingo's pink coloring comes from the shrimp they eat, and in 1992 in the Miami Zoo they had to stick the flamingos in the bathroom to ride out Hurricane Andrew.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Capybaras are the largest extant rodents. They live together in groups, and have been known to communally suckle the babies.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Zoos will give animals toys and snow and plush animals among many other things to help preserve, encourage and challenge their natural instincts. It's called animal enrichment.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Northern ghost bats are insectivorious and they sing while they eat.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Stoats molt twice a year, becoming pure white with a black tail in northern environments. They will regularly take down prey thats larger than itself.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Squirrels play an important part in the ecosystem by spreading a fungus that trees need to survive, they also lose about 25% of the nuts they bury.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Blue racers can live over 10 years, and have been known to communally nest with other species of snake.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Puffins will pick one mate for most of their life, and will return to the same nest to mate5yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The orchid mantis is the only species we know of that doesn't just hide in flowers and ambush predators, but pretends to be a flower by itself. They attract insects at a higher rate than the other flowers around them.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Peacocks use their feathers to attract mates. Those with larger trains and more eyes on them tend to have babies that weigh more and survive better6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The northern pudu is the smallest species of deer weighing in at 3.3-6kg(7.3-13.2 lbs). They will bark when they feel threatened.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Giraffes have a very strong odor. The older males smell so bad they're sometimes called stink bulls. This smell is thought to help protect them from parasites, and act as an antibiotic.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Lemurs will huddle together in groups of up to 30 to keep warm and reaffirm social ties. They, despite having a relatively small brain, are pretty intelligent, being able to use tools and understand basic math.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
According to Darwin no other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrill's. They also live in hoards averaging about 615 individuals, made up entirely of females and their young.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The flemish giant rabbit is the largest breed of rabbit weighing on average 15 pounds (6.8 kg). It gives birth about once a month when sexually mature with litters of about 5-12.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The abyssinian cat (the third animal alphabetically) is a very intelligent and playful cat, and have been said to have a doglike attachment to their owners. They are called abyssinian cats because they were initially brought to England from a soldier that fought in the Abyssinian War.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sun Bears have tongues that are up to 25 cm (10 in) long that they use to eat insects such as bees and termites. They also look like people in bear suits.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The rusty spotted cat is one of the smallest species of cat in the world. When they give birth they have litters of one or two kittens that weigh 2.1 oz-2.7 oz6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The kakapo is the only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, and the one with the best sense of smell.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Panda's are endangered because they're hunted for their sombreros.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/ShittyAnimalFacts
The Spicebush Swallowtail is the only known natural source of googly eyes.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/ShittyAnimalFacts
Leopard geckos have temperature-dependent sex determination, meaning their sex is determined by the temperature their eggs are kept at.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Meet this cutie pie, the aba roundleaf bat which as far as I can tell is alphabetically the third animal.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/batty
Some slime molds can turn into slugs and search for food or a better spot. Despite not having a brain they have been shown to be able to anticipate and react to stimuli using a rudimentary internal clock.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Snow owl eggs hatch at different times, with the larger owlets sometimes weighing 10 to 15 times more than the smaller ones. Both parents raise the young.5yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Silkworms are one of only 2 domesticated insects, and the silk industry is estimated to be worth almost $17 billion by 20216yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Linguists believe that bears were terrifying to early Europeans. So much so that the word bear itself was a taboo.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Dogs are preventing cheetahs from going extinct by helping them with anxiety in zoos, and preventing cheetahs from attacking livestock in Africa; thereby reducing deaths from trapping or killing by 80%.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Red foxes live in pairs or small family groups. The younger foxes help their parents with raising the babies.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The name cheetah comes from the sanskrit word citrakayah meaning bright or variegated. Cheetahs generally kill their prey by either tripping it while they're chasing it, by suffocating it, or biting smaller animals necks.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sea horses are extremely effective ambush predators, catching their prey about 90% of the time, and also the slowest fish in the sea.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sea turtles can hold their breaths up to 4-7 hours while resting, and contrary to popular belief cannot hibernate over winter.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Sea turtles range from carnivorous to herbivorous based on the species.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/TurtleFacts
The Platypus, when initially discovered, was thought to be some type of fake taxidermy creation. As an adult the platypus has no teeth, and they walk on their knuckles on land.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Owls cannot move their eyes. Their eyes are fixed in place, and the concave area around their eyes help direct the sound into their ears so they can hear better.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Horseshoe crabs are most closely related to scorpions, and have the most expensive blood in the world at $60,000 a gallon.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Pet rabbits need to be spayed or neutered to help prevent reproductive cancer6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The asian palm civet, both male and female, have a perineal scent gland that resembles a pair of testicles under their legs; thus leading to their scientific name Paradoxurus hermaphroditus.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Brown bears can double in weight in preparation for winter. Female bears will sometimes kidnap baby bears from their moms and raise them.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Calafornia has started a headstart program for desert tortoises. Only about 2% of tortoises survive the hatchling period, so they keep them during that time then when they're older and bigger they release them into the wild.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Contrary to popular belief turtles do not have an exoskeleton, because of how their shells develop it's classified as an endoskeleton.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Some paleontologists believe that hyenas delayed humans from crossing the Bering Strait. The first human skeletons were only found after they went extinct.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The blue and yellow macaws mate for life, live in small family groups, and can live up to 60 years.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The flehmen response occurs when an animal smells something of interest to it. They curl their upper lip back and inhale the smell.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Hedgehogs can easily get stuck in tubes due to how their quills face. To help prevent this from happening, in 2006 McDonalds redesigned their mcflurry cup so they wouldn't get stuck and die.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
The Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd is breeding bison via in vitro fertilization to help conserve the species.6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
Kale and Cabbage — along with Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cauliflower, Collard Greens, and Kohlrabi all come from the same plant Brassica oleracea6yr ⋅ Mail30silver ⋅ r/Awwducational
