* In total there is said to be around 400 million dogs in the world!
*Cats conserve energy by sleeping for an average of 13 to 14 hours a day!
*Tigers are good swimmers and can swim up to 6 kilometers!
*Sharks have outstanding hearing. They can hear a fish thrashing in the water from as far as 500 meters away!
*Despite its name, the Killer Whale (Orca) is actually a type of dolphin!
*The roar of a lion can be heard from 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) away!
*You may have seen baby gorillas being carried on the back of their mothers, but for the first few months after birth the mother holds the baby gorilla to her chest!
*Frogs can see forwards, sideways and upwards all at the same time. They never close their eyes, even when they sleep!
*Cheetahs cannot climb trees and have poor night vision!
*Although a giraffe’s neck is 1.5 – 1.8 meters, it contains the same number of vertebrae at a human neck!
*The elephant’s trunk is able to sense the size, shape and temperature of an object!
*A leopard’s tail is just about as long as its entire body!
*You can tell the age of a whale by looking at the wax plug in its ear!
Although polar bears have white, fluffy fur, their skin is actually black!
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