Test Your Knowledge About the Animal Kingdom
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Test Your Knowledge About the Animal Kingdom

The natural world is impressive and there are so many interesting facts about common animals that many people don't know. Check out these 18 animal kingdom facts that will blow your mind.

A single strand of spider silk is five times stronger than steel of the same width. A rope of spider silk only 2 inches thick could, reportedly, stop a Boeing 747.

Sea lions are the first being, apart from humans, with a proven ability to keep a beat.

There’s an extinct penguin, colossus penguin, that stood as tall as LeBron James.

The claws of a mantis shrimp are as fast as a .22-caliber bullet.

Photography: National Science Foundation

There’s a jellyfish capable of cheating death indefinitely. It was discovered in the Mediterranean Sea in 1883 and if this mature jellyfish feels threatened, such as it’s injured or starving, it attaches itself to a surface in warm water and coverts itself into a blob, undergoing transdifferentiating.

African buffalo herds display voting behavior when deciding where to graze next and only females can vote.

Elephants have a specific alarm call that means “human.”

Bats eat tons of insects and cumulatively save the U.S. agriculture industry around $3 billion per year.

Polar bears have black skin.

Animals with smaller bodies can see in slow motion.

Honeybees are capable of flapping their wings 200 times per second.

Butterflies taste with their feat.

Horses use facial expressions to communicate with one another.

Dolphins call each other by names.

Two species of ants, one in California and one in Mexico, are currently in a turf war.

A leopard can drag a small antelope up a 50-foot tree.

Each species of big cat has a unique coat for camouflage.

There are 24 species of dancing frogs.

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