Here are three facts you didn’t know about bears! Canada is home to nearly 60 percent of the world’s polar bears; black bears can run up to 35 miles per hour; Baloo, from The Jungle Book, is a sloth bear.
Elephants are the largest land mammals, and they live in herds of female elephants. Male elephants stay with a herd until they’re about 15, and then live alone. Did you know a healthy adult elephant can drink up to 60 gallons of water every day!?
These reptiles love the warmth, shed their skin, and eat vegetables and fruits. Did you know that in the wild, iguanas can break off their tails to escape an enemy. If a predator grabs the tail and holds on? If the tail breaks cleanly, it may grow back.
These caterpillar-like insects have three pairs of legs in the front, and either two or three pairs in the back, but they have no legs in the center which explains why they inch along and how they got their name!
There are four species of kangaroo: the red, antilopine, Eastern Grey, and Western Grey. On land kangaroos only ever move their hind legs together, but in water they kick each leg independently to swim.
While you’re asleep, male nightingales are singing a tune throughout the night trying to serenade migrating females. The song they sing is often quoted in literature and poetry as a metaphor for love, beauty, and poetry itself.
These creepy crawly creatures are arachnids, not insects, because they have eight legs instead of six and they don’t have antennae. Did you know most spiders live on land, but there are a few that live in and on water, too!?
Tasmania is the only place where you’ll find these little devils running around in the wild. Adults are usually the size of a small dog, and their strong, muscular jaws can deliver one of the most powerful bites of any mammal on Earth.