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Cheetahs
can’t roar.
Honey bees can’t
see the color red.
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Frogs don’t close their eyes when they sleep.
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Celebrate Ranger Rick’s birthday with one amazing
animal fact for each year the magazine’s been around!
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art by Jack Desrocher
photos provided by
Minden Pictures
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Giant anteaters walk on
their knuckles to protect
their long claws.
A baby echidna is called
a puggle.
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A squirrel can sniff out food
buried beneath a foot
of snow.
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Centipede means “100
feet,” but the average
centipede has only
70 legs.
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A pig can’t look up.
4: YVA MOMATIUK & JOHN EASTCOTT; 8: INGO ARNDT; 9: JOUAN & RIUS/NPL; 10: KONRAD WOTHE; 17: KATHERINE FENG;
19: STEFAN HUWILER/NPL; 21: STAFFAN WIDSTRAND; 22: SEBASTIAN KENNERKNECKT; 25: STEVE GETTLE
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A spotted skunk does a
handstand before it sprays.
A polar
bear has
a blue
tongue.
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A dolphin mom
whistles constantly
to her newborn
baby.
A blue whale’s tongue
can weigh as much as
an elephant.
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A newborn
kangaroo
is the size of
a lima bean.
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Horseshoe crabs are
more closely related to
spiders than to crabs.
An ibex can jump 6 feet
in the air without
a running start.
Orangutans are ticklish.
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A camel has two rows of
eyelashes to keep sand
out of its eyes.
A catfish has taste buds
all over its body.
An albatross can soar
for six days without
flapping its
wings.
A colobus
monkey
burps to say
“hello!”
Chipmunks have
fur-lined cheeks.
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A newborn panda weighs
about as much as a deck
of cards.
Armadillo moms almost
always give birth
to quadruplets.
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Hummingbirds
can fly backward.
The world’s largest earthworm was 22 feet long.
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Newts can regrow
damaged limbs, eyes,
tails, jaws, or hearts.
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38 A bumblebee bat weighs
The star-nosed mole is the only mammal
that can smell underwater.
less than a penny.
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An ant takes about 250
short naps each day.
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Only
female
mallards
quack.
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A deer’s antlers can grow as
fast as ½ inch per day.
A groundhog’s brain is
the size of a cashew.
Sea otters hold paws
when they sleep so they
don’t drift apart.
Reindeer make clicking
sounds when they walk.
A grasshopper’s
blood is green.
An Asian mammal called the binturong
(BIN-too-rong) smells like buttered
popcorn.
The fastest animal is the peregrine falcon in a dive.
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Some seahorses are as
small as grains of rice.
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Elephants sometimes
“purr” while eating.
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An
emperor
penguin
is as
tall as a
sevenyear-old
child.
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Wombat poop is
shaped like a cube.
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Sharks don’t get cavities.
A hippopotamus’s
sweat is red.
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A giraffe has the same
number of bones in its
neck as a person.
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A lobster’s teeth
are in its stomach.
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A crocodile has the
strongest bite of any
animal.
An ostrich’s
eyeball is
bigger than
its brain.
A butterfly
tastes with
hairs on the
bottoms of
its feet.
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A python can
go for a year
without
eating.
In a pride of lions, the
females do most of
the hunting.
28: EDWIN GIESBERS/NPL; 34: THOMAS MARENT; 36: OTTO PLANTEMA/BUITEN-BEELD; 37: CH’IEN LEE; 42: MIKE PARRY;
43: THEO ALLOFS; 45: ANDREW PARKINSON/FLPA; 48: KATSUOMI MATSUMOTO/NATURE PRODUCTION; 49: WINFRIED
WISNIEWSKI; 50: GERRY ELLIS
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