A-Z Fun Facts Pages (Standard Units)

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Alligators live in two places: the

southern United States and eastern
China. American alligators can be up
to 11 feet long and weigh up to
1000 pounds. They are much longer
and heavier than Chinese alligators.

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When a butterfly comes out of its

chrysalis, it must wait an hour or
more for its wings to dry. The fastest
butterfly can fly 12 miles per hour.
Butterflies live on every continent except Antarctica.

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The pea crab is smaller than a dime,

but the Japanese Spider Crab is 12
feet long from claw to claw. Crabs
walk and swim sideways. Female
crabs lay between 1,000 and 2,000
eggs.

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Dolphins communicate with each

other using whistles, clicks, and other
sounds. They eat fish, squid, and
shrimp. The smallest dolphin is only
about 90 pounds, but the largest
can be 20,000 pounds!

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The largest elephant ever weighed

24,000 pounds. Thats as much as
12 cars! The elephant is the only
land mammal who cant jump. Elephants can smell water up to 12
miles away.

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A group of frogs is called an army.

Frogs dont drink water; they absorb
it through their skin. Some tree
frogs can jump fifty times their
length. Thats like you jumping the
length of a football field!

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A newborn giraffe is taller than most

humans. Giraffes sleep standing up.
And did you know that no two giraffes have the same spot pattern?
Giraffes can sprint up to 35 miles an
hour.

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The name hippopotamus means
river horse. Hippos can easily outrun humans and are considered one
of the most dangerous animals in
Africa.
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A green iguana can be up to seven
feet long. Thats longer than you! A
green iguana can stay underwater
for up to 30 minutes. It can live to
be twenty years old.
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The smallest jellyfish is smaller than
the head of a pin. The largest is bigger than a person! Jellyfish dont
have brains, but some have eyes. A
group of jellyfish is called a smack.

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Newborn kangaroos are very tiny.
They weigh as much as a lima bean!
Red kangaroos can move faster than
a racehorse. There are more kangaroos than humans in Australia.
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The average male lion weighs about
400 pounds, but the heaviest on
record weighed over 800 pounds!
In the wild, lions rest for about twenty hours a day.
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A male mooses antlers can grow to
be six feet long from tip to tip.
Moose shed their antlers each year in
the fall. Bears, wolves, and cougars
like to hunt moose.
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Newts are amphibians. They can

live to be over 25 years old, so a
newt could be your pet for a long
time! Most newts lay just one egg at
a time. Some newts pretend to play
dead when threatened.

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Orcas are often called killer whales.

They dont usually attack people, but
they kill large ocean animals like sea
lions and whales. No animals hunt
orcas! Orcas can live in both warm
and icy ocean water.

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The Emperor Penguin is about 4 feet
tall, but the Little Blue Penguin is only
about 18 inches in height. Penguins
are very social and live in colonies of
thousands.
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Quails are short, plump birds that
can fly only a short distance. Females can lay 10-20 eggs at a time.
They live on every continent except
Antarctica.
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Wild rabbits make their homes by

tunneling up to nine feet underground. They have rooms for nesting
and sleeping. Rabbits can look behind them without even turning their
heads.

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The longest snake is the Reticulated

Python. It can be 33 feet long! The
Thread Snake is the smallest and is
the length of a toothpick. Snakes
cant chew their prey, so they swallow it whole.

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The largest turtle, the leatherback

sea turtle, can weigh 2000 pounds!
A turtle cannot crawl out of its shell.
Most turtles and tortoises have a
large, dome-shaped shell, but the
African pancake tortoise has a flat,
fexible shell.

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The urial is a wild sheep with reddish
brown fur. Urial males have large
curling horns. Females have shorter
horns. The urial lives in Asia.
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There are 23 different species of

vultures. They are social birds and
often fly in large flocks. Vultures
have excellent senses of sight and
smell. They can find a dead animal
from a mile or more away.

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The blue whale is the largest animal

the world. Its tongue can weigh as
much as an elephant and its heart as
much as a car. But even though its
so big, the blue whale eats tiny
shrimplike creatures called krill.

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The X-ray Tetra lives in the Amazon
river. You can see its backbone right
through its skin. It hunts fish,
worms, and crustaceans that live
close to the river bed.
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Yaks are herd animals found in the
mountains of central Asia. Many
people use yaks to move heavy loads
through the mountains. The yak eats
grasses, herbs, and wildflowers.
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No two zebras have the same
stripes. A zebras stripes work like
camouflage, because when zebras
stand in a group its hard for predators to see how many of them there
are.
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