Animal Fact Guide is giving away THREE Halloween costumes courtesy of HalloweenCostumes.com. For a chance to win, simply comment below with your favorite animal fact by September 23. Be sure to include your email address so we may contact the winners for their mailing address and choice of costume.
Three lucky winners will have their choice of any costume available on HalloweenCostumes.com valued up to $50.
Note: This contest is open to people in the U.S. only.
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UPDATE: Congratulations to our winners, Amanda A., Rita M., and Nicole F.!
That ocelots have two less chromosomes than other cats…
I love them 🙂
the female octopus releases 100,000-500,000 eggs.
Turkeys make their gobbling noise if you whistle at them.
Platypus are one of the most venomous creatures on Earth.
Male sea horses are the ones who give birth – and it usually occurs at night.
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When a giraffe’s baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
An elephant can walk up to 37 miles per day!
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the giraffe has as many neck bones as a human
Emperor penguins can dive deeper in the water than any other bird – as deep as 565 m (1850 ft.) – and they can stay under for more than 20 minutes.
Crocodiles cannot smile.
Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.
Hedgehogs smash flat when run over by a car.
I don’t want to talk about it.
Penguins don’t live near freshwater — at least none that isn’t frozen. Instead they drink salt water. They have a special gland in their bodies that takes the salt out of the water they drink and pushes it out of grooves in their bill. A handy in-house filtration system!
I always thought it was cool how cheetahs can run over 60mi/hr. The world record for humans is 23.4 mi/hr.
PANDAS! One of the interesting evolutionary traits of the panda is their protruding wrist bone that acts like a thumb. This helps the pandas hold bamboo while they munch on it with their strong molar teeth.
Dolphins have to be conscious to breath which means they cannot go into a full deep sleep because they would suffocate. So, dolphins let one half of their brain sleep at a time and get about 8 hours of sleep per day in this fashion.
Elephants can start getting pregnant at about age 12 and are pregnant for 22 months!!
A wolf’s howl – owing to its specific frequency, doesn’t echo even if the animal howls right in the middle of a valley. This is a natural animal adaptation for wolves, which plays a crucial role in communication and hunting for this species.
Pandas can reproduce at 4-8 years of age. However, the female pandas are only able to get pregnant 2-3 days in the spring.
Penguins mate for life.
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A jaguar eats more than 80 different species of animals.
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I find it interesting that hippos teeth never stop growing.
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some Turtles can absorb oxygen through their butts.
Llamas pee backwards!
Pandas: One of the interesting evolutionary traits of the panda is their protruding wrist bone that acts like a thumb
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“Normally, spotted eagle owls make their nests on the ground, sheltered by a bush, grass, or rocks. Because their habitat is declining due to development, the eagle owls have been forced to find other suitable nesting areas within a more urban landscape.”
I think that this is sad. It’s good that they are adapting, but they shouldn’t have to.
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giraffes have black tongues!!
ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds
Technically, only males are peacocks. Females are peahens, and together, they are called peafowl.
giraffes have seven bones in their neck!
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America has never lost a war when Donkeys were used.
I was amazed by the fact that Tasmanian Devils can give birth to up to 50 tiny babies only 3 weeks after conception. Sadly, only 4 survive because the mother has only 4 teats in her pouch.
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The eggs of tettigoniids are typically oval shaped and laid in rows on the host plant
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Oh fun!! I need a Halloween costume for my soon to be 1 year old…so I’m crossing my fingers!! My favorite animal fact…that’s difficult…I have several favorites…I guess it would be that each hair on a polar bear’s body is covered with wax to repel the frigid water in order to keep the bear from freezing when it’s swimming in the cold waters. Thanks so much for the chance to win!
Two-thirds of a shark’s brain is dedicated to its keenest sense …smell.
An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h.
Nawws that little baby in the loin costume is so cute 🙂 <3
The walrus’ scientific name, Odobenus rosmarus, is Latin for “tooth-walking sea-horse.”
A shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime!
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The oldest breed of a dog known to mankind is the ‘Saluki’.
An ostrich is the fastest bird and can run up to 70 km/h.
“Because gray wolves eliminate only weak animals, herds become stronger and healthier as a whole. In fact, studies have shown that gray wolves have helped prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease, a contagious neurological disease, in deer.”
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Anteaters lap up to 35,000 ants a day, but never destroy an ant nest.
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That Panamanian golden frogs don’t have outside ears. The sound vibrations are redirected to their eardrums via their lungs!
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Deer have no gall bladders.
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I’ve loved elephants my whole life and know tons (no pun intended), but it wasn’t until I was pregant with my 1st that this fact really sunk in…
An Elephant’s gestation period is 22 mths (just short of 2 YEARS!) and the baby calves are on average just over 200 pounds at birth! YIKES
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My (nearly) five-year-old would like to contribute the following shark fact:
A shark will sink if it stops moving.
Thanks for the chance!
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The Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
Cows poop 15 times a day. (or so I’ve heard)
My favorite animal fact is that swans stay together for life.
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A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can’t.
A snail can sleep for 3 years… and I thought my cat slept a lot!!!
Mountain gorillas live in groups of up to 30.
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Even though chipmunks hibernate, they do not store fat.
A male angler fish attaches itself to his mate and lives as a parasite for the rest of his life.
Adult geckos can range in size anywhere from 3/4 inch to 14 inches long.
The bat is the only mammal that can fly.
Crazy fact if female ferrets go into heat but does not get to mate they will die..
how crazy…
cows have 32 teeth — just like people.
Polar bears do not hibernate like other bears, but females do enter into a dormant state while pregnant.
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A Capybara is the largest of all living rodents. They can weigh more than 100 pounds.
The blood pressure of a giraffe is the highest in comparison to every animal species! Thanks for holding such a great giveaway!
Adult cats do not meow to each other; just to people.
I am still wondering why they purr!
The giveaway looks great. tabathay at ymail dot com.
A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it’s own weight, in a year.
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Fun animal fact, sloths come down to the jungle floor about once a week and poop in the same spot every time! You could probably keep them in your house and have a litter box!! I love sloths, and I would love to win this, thanks!
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If a shark was put into a large swimming pool, it would be able to smell a single drop of blood in the water.
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The koala BEAR is actually not a bear. cindyhinckley at msn
One drop of Marbled Cone snail venom can kill up to 20 humans. Hard core! Thanks for this giveaway.
Pigs and light-colored horses are the only two mammals besides humans that can get sunburned.
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Dolphins love to play: they toss seaweed, blow bubbles in aquariums, and jump in and out of waves and boat trails!
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(‘im clearly a fan of dolphins, haha!
Every single tiger in the world has their own distinct pattern of stripes!
Thanks!
Cristina
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Polar bears fur isn’t white… It’s clear hollow tubes! Their skin is also black!
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Lemurs are found only in southern Madagascar.
I was suprised that the Tasmanian Devil can birth to up to 50 babies, called joeys, 3 weeks after conception. Also, that only 4 of them survive because the mother only has 4 teats available for feeding.
The male platypus also possesses two small spurs, one on each hind paw. The spurs release enough toxic venom to kill a small animal or be incredibly painful for a human.
The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.
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seahorses change genders!
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A tarantula spider can survive for more than two years without food.
Found it interesting that 2 of an octopus’s “arms” actually act more like legs. Great giveaway an cool site! Thanks. 🙂
Cow’s spots are like our finger prints and no two cows have the same exact spot pattern!
In an African Elephant the trunk alone contains about 100,000 different muscles. Wow!
Lobsters mate for life. I love this because when my fiancee proposed to me, he pulled a line from “Friends”. (Because I’m his lobster!)
Animal accents! The accent of a cow’s mooing depends on the region it belongs to. SweepsGirl@aol.com
The nose pad of a cat is ridged in a pattern that is unique, just like the fingerprint of a human.
One cow will act as a babysitter for numerous calves while the other cows graze or sleep.
Narwhals also have a second tooth that measures about 30 cm (1 ft.) long, but it remains embedded in the skull.
Dogs have sweat glands in between their paws!
There are over 80 species of whales!
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The Mexican axolotl (pronounced ACK-suh-LAH-tuhl) salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life. This condition, called neoteny, means it keeps its tadpole-like dorsal fin, which runs almost the length of its body, and its feathery external gills, which protrude from the back of its wide head.
Llamas pee backwards!
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Certain alligators can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breathe for months on end. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Polar Bear Polar Bear females weigh 660-770 lbs.
A cat’s heart beats twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats per minute.
It is a myth that dogs are color blind- they see colors, just not as vivid as humans (it is compared to humans sight during dusk).
When A cat drinks instead of lapping up water like dogs do they move their tongue back and forth to the water really fast creating a “tunnel” of water that defies gravity. Then they swallow.
A snail can sleep for 3 years!
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Male penquins take care of their unhatched young while the female penquins go off to find food