1. Mammals have fur or hair and are warm-blooded. They feed their young with milk.
2. The okapi, the only living relative of giraffes, can clean its eyes with its tongue.
3. Blindfolded harbor seals can use their whiskers to determine the shape of an object.
4. Humans are just 1 of about 4,000 mammal species on Earth.
5. The first mammal may never be knowni.
6. An adult pink fairy armadillo is the size of a soda can.
7. Most mammals only see in black and white.
8. Some bats live up to 30 years.
9. Bats make up almost a quarter of all mammal species.
10. Some mammals glide through the air-like flying squirrels and flying lemurs-using parachute-like wings.
11. Sugar gliders, a type of possum, can glide 20o feet (60 m) between trees. They steer with their tails, which are as long as their bodies,
12. Much like cats, bats groom themselves constantly.
13. Hippos show they claim a territory by yawning.
14. If a porcupine is in danger, it may back into an attacker and poke it with its quills.
15. Platypuses, found only in Australia, are one of the few mammals that lay eggs.
16. A giraffe can use its long tongue to reach up an extra foot (30 cm) to grab food.
17. Nột ll mammals live on land, Whales and manatees spend their entire lives in water.
18. Tasmanan devils are the size of a grain of rice when they're born.
19. Some mammals are born blind,
20. A beaver's evelids are transparent so it can see as it svims underwater,
21. A beaver's warning signal to predators is whacking its tail on the water's surface,
22. A newborn manatee is about the same weight as a large dog.
23. Moose are strong and quick: 90 percent escape when being attacked by a pack of wolves.
24. The pygmy shrew of North America is only two inches (5 cm) long and weighs less than a dimel
25, Whales evolved from mammals that once lived on land about 80 million years ago. The front legs evolved into flippers and the back legs disappeared, although small leg bones remain.
26. An elephant brain woighs eight nounds (3.6 kg). A human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kn),
27. A squirrl has such a keen sense of smell thật it can finda nut buried undera foot (0.3 m) of snow.
28. Oné ear of the African elephant can weigh more than 100 pounds (45 kg).
29. A skunk can spray an object nine feet (27 m), away
30. Coyotes have scent glands between their toes that are used to mark their territory.
31. When prairie dogs meet, they "kiss" to idertify what. group the other is a member of.
32. Porcupines can float,
33, Warthogs don't have warts,
34. Mammals have small bones in thair sars that help them hear better than non-mammals.
35. A giant anteater can lap up 35.000 ants and termites in one day.
36. Capybaras, the world's lergest iytng rodents, weigh as much as 140 pounds (64 kg) and are close relatives of the much smaller quinea pig.
37. Male cats are called toms, Females are talled queens.
38. The two-toed sloth sleeps 15 to 18 hours a day. Even when it's awake it doesn't get around much. Its climnbing speed: sixta eight feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) per minute,
39. The jaquar, the biggest cat in South America, is nocturnal.
40. Wombats can take up to 14 days to tgest a meal. It takes humans between one and three.
41. A group of wombats is called a wisdom.
42. Like the giant panda, the red panda grazes on bam- boo and lives in trees. While their faces resemble a raccoon's and their name suggests they are related to the panda, they are in fact believed to be in their own family.
43. The Chinese name for red panda is hun-ho, which means "fire fox."
44. Crabeater seals don't eat crabs! They strain krill out of the water using their special teeth.
45. Wildebeest migrate over 90o miles (1,450 km) across Africa's Serengeti plains each year in search of food. Herds can number as many as 500,000.
46. Most cats have 18 toes, but one cat in Canada has 28!
47. Hyenas are considered scavengers-they eat the leftovers from other animals' kills. The spotted hyena is capable of eating every part of an animal, including the bones.
48. Fennec foxes have ears that are about a third of their body length, and that give them excellent hearing and help keep them cool.
49. Caribou migrate in herds of up to 500,000, Domesticated caribou are called reindeer in Europe and Asia.
50. Caribou are the only deer species in which both males and females grow antlers. Male antlers can measure 51 inches (130 cm).
51. Tigers are lions' closest relatives. If you were to remove a lion's and tiger's coat, their bodies are so similar that only an expert could tell which was which.
52. A lion's roar can be heard up to five miles (8 km) away.
53. A puma, also known as a mountain lion or cougar, can kill prey seven times its own weight.
54. Lynx have tufts of hair on the ends of their ears that may be used like whiskers to feel things.
55. A golden retriever won a world record by halding five tennis balls in its mouth at once.
56. There are more dogs in the U.S. than babies.
57. If a camel doesn't have enaugh fat stored up, its hump droops,
58. A giraffe's heart is two feet (0.6 m) long!
59. A group of hippos is called a bloat,
60. Hippos can go three weeks without eating.
61. A mare in Kansas holds the world record for the longest horse mane, It measured 12 and a half feet (381 cm).
62. Arctic foxes' fur changes color with the seasons. It's white in winter and brown in summer,
63. Rams sometimes battle by butting heads for 24 hours straight.
64. Most wolves live in a pack of between four and seven.
65. Members of the "big cat" families like lions, tigers, and jaguars can roar. Smaller cats cannot.
66. Female mountain goats are called nannies.
67. Aye-ayes anid lemurs are only found on Madagascar, an island off of Africa.
68. Wolverines are members of the weasel family and have short legs and wide feet for running quickly through the snow. They travel as much as 15 miles (24 km) a day looking for food.
69. The clouded leopard's tail is as long as its body, which helps it climb a branch upside down.
70. A hedgehog has 3,000-5,000 quills on its back.
71. When a hedgehog feels threatened, it rolls into a tight ball, protecting its soft belly.
72. While pigs do roll in the mud (to protect themselves from sunburn), they are considered one of the cleanest farm animals,
73, Female lions are faster and more successful hunters than the males,
74. Cows eat and chew for four to six hours a day,
75. Moose antlers can span more than six feet (L8 m) across.
76. There are about 1.4 billion cattle and about 1.1 bilion sheen in the world
77. If you were to put all of Earth's 7 billion humans on a giant scale, we would weigh 350 million tons (317 MT).
78. Chinchillas, native to Chile, are known for their soft fur and are often kept as pets. Only a few thousand survive in the wild, however,
79. Naked mole rats, which are almost completely hairless and have wrinkly gray or pink skin, have large front teeth they use for digging tunnels underground.
80. About 30 percent of alm U.S. households have a cat; about 40 percent have a dog.
81. Trained cheetahs were used by 16th century royalty to hunt gazelles.
82. Newborn giraffes are six feet (18 m) tall,
83. Koalas have unique fingerprints just like humans.
84. Kangaroos can't walk backward.
85. Koalas sleep as many as 20 hours a day,
86. Unlike most domestic cats, tigers like the Water,
87. Honey badgers don't get their name from eating honey; they eat larva in a honeybee mye. Their thick skin can withstand the bees' stings.
88. A newborn pronghorn calf can walk an nour after it's born,
89. Spotted hvenas make a noise that sounds like a human laugh when they Rabbit are nervous or excited.
90. Pot-bellied pigs are used by law enforcement because they're good aniffers!
91. Matschie's tree-kangaroos spend most of their time up in trees eating leaves.
92. When musk oxen are threatened by predators, they form a circle around their young.
93: Musk oxen, which weigh as much as g00 pounds (408 kg), live in the Arctic and eat grasses and lichen,
94. Polar bears have an outer coat of fur that sticks together to keep their dercoat dry.
95. A rabbit's teeth grow its entire life.
96. A polar bear can smell a seal on the ice 20 miles (32 km) away.
97. "Groundhog" and "woodchuck" are common terms for the same animal.
98. Opossums sometimes "play dead" for hours.
99. Some kangaroos can jump five times their body length in one jump.
100. Numbats, a type of anteater, have a long. sticky tongue they use for catching termites. They can eat tens of thousands a day!
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