True or False Animals Facts

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A newborn kangaroo is only about the size of a jellybean
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True
After a pregnancy of about 33 days, the tiny joey climbs by itself into its mother's pouch to keep growing
Source: australian.museum
Bulls charge because the color red makes them angry
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False
A bull charges at the moving cape, so capes of other colors work just as well; cattle also cannot see red as people do
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Wombat droppings are shaped like small cubes with flat sides
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True
Stiff and soft zones in the last part of a wombat's intestine mold the droppings into cubes with flat sides
Source: pubs.rsc.org
Wild penguins live in both the Arctic and the Antarctic
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False
Penguins live almost entirely in the Southern Hemisphere; none is native to the Arctic
Source: discoverwildlife.com
An octopus has 3 hearts pumping blood through its body
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Two hearts send blood through the gills and the third circulates it around the rest of the body
Source: montereybayaquarium.org
A male seahorse carries the eggs and gives birth to the young
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The female deposits her eggs in his brood pouch, where they develop for 2 to 4 weeks until he delivers the babies
Source: oceanservice.noaa.gov
The eye of an ostrich is bigger than its brain
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Each eye is about 5 cm across, the largest of any land animal, and larger than the bird's brain
Source: nhm.ac.uk
Hyenas are members of the dog family, like wolves and foxes
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False
Hyenas have a family of their own in the cat-like branch of carnivores, closer kin to cats and civets than to dogs
Source: en.wikipedia.org
An elephant's trunk works like a straw that carries water to its stomach
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False
An elephant sucks water into its trunk, then curls the tip into its mouth and blows the water out, down its throat
Source: kids.nationalgeographic.com
Polar bear fur looks white because its hairs contain white pigment
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False
The hairs are clear and have no pigment; they look white because they scatter visible light
Source: polarbearsinternational.org
A whale's spout is seawater shot up through its blowhole
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False
The visible cloud is mostly the whale's warm breath condensing in cooler air, not water drawn in through the blowhole
Source: nationalgeographic.com
The sex of baby sea turtles depends on how warm their nest is
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Cooler sand produces mostly males and warmer sand mostly females, so a mix of temperatures gives both
Source: fisheries.noaa.gov
Every kind of bee dies right after it uses its sting
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False
Only honeybee workers lose their barbed stinger and die after stinging mammals; many other bees can sting more than once
Source: en.wikipedia.org
About 1 in 4 known species of animal on Earth is a beetle
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True
More than 400,000 beetle species have been described, which is about 25% of all known animal species
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Koalas have fingerprints that look almost identical to human ones
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True
Their ridge patterns look similar to ours even under a microscope, which researchers link to a climbing grip
Source: digital.library.adelaide.edu.au
The extra thumb of a giant panda is a real sixth finger
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False
It is an enlarged wrist bone covered by a pad of skin, which helps the panda grip bamboo stalks
Source: nationalzoo.si.edu
A sea star has a brain in its center that controls all its arms
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False
Sea stars have no brain, only a nerve ring in the center that works like a relay and coordinates the arms
Source: shapeoflife.org
Clownfish are born female and later some turn into males
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False
Clownfish start out male; when the breeding female dies, the largest male changes sex and takes her place
Source: floridamuseum.ufl.edu
The closest living relatives of hippos are whales and dolphins
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True
Genetic studies show hippos and whales share a common ancestor that lived around 55 million years ago
Source: en.wikipedia.org
A common swift can stay in the air for months without landing
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True
Tiny tags showed some common swifts staying airborne for about 10 months, catching insects in flight
Source: lunduniversity.lu.se

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