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Wolf Pups Seen in the Wild | Expedition Wolf | BBC Earth

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Aren't animals cute when they're little babies? Just think about it. Little puppies jumping around with energy...tiny kittens with fuzzy fur...small bunnies with twitching noses...they're all so adorable!

Of course, bunnies, kittens, and puppies usually grow up to be much bigger animals as adults. Are there animals that stay small all their lives? You might be WONDERing what the in the world is.

You'll have to keep your eyes wide open to take in the tiny creatures that for the title of Earth's . They're VERY small, but they probably won't replace kittens, puppies, and bunnies on your list of pets.

There are actually two mammals that can lay claim to the title of world's . The winner depends upon how you define "." One of the animals weighs the least of any , while the other is the shortest on Earth.

The lightest title goes to the Etruscan ( Suncus etruscus), which weighs in at a measly two grams or less. How small is that? It's less than the weight of a dime! Wow! That IS small!

These tiny creatures usually grow to a length of about 2.3 inches or so. Although they're small, they have huge appetites. Etruscan shrews regularly eat twice their own body weight every single day.

The Etruscan is just one of the hundreds of of that can be found all over the world. The Etruscan is the , but all shrews tend to be very small. Some even have that helps them to immobilize their prey to feed their big appetites!

If you're WONDERing why such a small creature has such a big , it probably has something to do with their fast . Their hearts beat at a rate of a whopping 25 beats per second. That equals about 1,500 beats per minute. By way of comparison, the average human heart beats at an average rate of 72 beats per minute!

The Etruscan shares the title of world's with a fascinating creature from Thailand: Kitti's hog-nosed ( Craseonycteris thonglongyai), also known as the bumblebee . It gets its nickname from its size - barely over an inch long - which makes it about the size of a large bumblebee!

Thai zoologist Kitti Thonglongya discovered the bumblebee in 1973. It gets the "hog-nosed" part of its name from the fact that its nose is pink and shaped like a pig's . These tiny bats, while shorter than the Etruscan , generally weigh a little more than two grams.

Bumblebee bats tend to live in groups of 100 or more in the caves of Thailand. They've also been found in Myanmar.

Can you imagine what it would be like to encounter a swarm of these tiny bats? What do you think? Would you want to have either an Etruscan or a bumblebee as a pet?

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Aren't animals cute when they're little babies? Just think about it. Little puppies jumping around with energy...tiny kittens with fuzzy fur...small bunnies with twitching noses...they're all so adorable! Of course, bunnies, kittens, and puppies usually grow up to be much bigger animals as adults. Are there animals that stay small all their lives?

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Why is the Venus fly trap called Venus?

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Which animal will be scared of peacock's long feather display?
Do you think it's yes or no

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Indian Peafowl - Animal Profile, Facts, Pictures

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Indian peafowl are a species in a group of birds called pheasants. The males are called peacocks, while the females are called peahens. Together, they are peafowl. Peafowl are among the largest of all birds that fly. (Ostriches, emus, and other such birds are bigger, but cannot fly.) The beautiful feathers that cover the tails of a peacock are 5 feet (1.5 meters) long—longer than the bird’s body—and can be displayed in a spectacular fan of brilliant colors. These long feathers actually grow from the bird’s back not the tail. He elevates them by raising the much shorter tail feathers underneath them. Peahens are more drab than their male counterparts, with mostly brown on their back with a white belly. Females don’t have long tail feathers, but they do have a crest on their head and green neck feathers. Indian peafowl are native to India and Sri Lanka, in South Asia. They’ve been introduced to other countries, usually as exhibits in parks, zoos, and nature centers or as domestic pets. The head and body of adult peafowl range from 3 to 4 feet long and their tail can be 5 feet long.

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fun fact!
king cobras can swim faster than human.

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A king cobra the length of a stretch limo slides through a field. Looking for food, it raises its head and flicks its tongue. Suddenly, a rat scampers past. The snake takes off after the rodent. As it nears its prey, the cobra strikes: It sinks its venom-filled fangs into the rat to knock it out, then swallows the snack in one gulp.

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A king cobra the length of a stretch limo slides through a field. Looking for food, it raises its head and flicks its tongue. Suddenly, a rat scampers past. The snake takes off after the rodent. As it nears its prey, the cobra strikes: It sinks its venom-filled fangs into the rat to knock it out, then swallows the snack in one gulp.

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Fun fact!
Female dolphins are called cows,males are called bulls and young dolphins are called calves.Find out more about dolphins at the link below.

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Bottlenose dolphins squeak, squawk and use body language-leaping as high as 20 feet in the air, snapping their jaws, slapping their tails on the surface of the water, blowing bubbles and even butting heads. Each dolphin has a special whistle that it creates soon after it is born. This whistle is used for identification, just like a human's name. Dolphins also produce high frequency clicks, which act as a sonar system called echolocation (ek-oh-low-KAY-shun). When the clicking sounds hit an object in the water, like a fish or rock, they bounce off and come back to the dolphin as echoes. Echolocation tells the dolphins the shape, size, speed, distance, and location of the object.

Bottlenose dolphins have a sharp sense of hearing. Scientists believe that the sounds travel through the dolphin's lower jaw to its inner ear and then are transmitted to the brain for analysis.

Dolphins grow to be anywhere from 6 to 12 feet long. They shed their outermost layer of skin every two hours.

Very social and playful mammals, bottlenose dolphins form friendships that last decades hunting, mating and protecting each other. They like to surf in the waves and wakes of boats and swim through self-made bubble rings. They can swim up to 22 miles an hour.

These sea mammals feed on fish, squid, and shrimp. A group of dolphins will cooperate to make a mud ring to trap fish. Then, some of the dolphins in the group will wait outside the ring for the fish that try to escape, gulping them up as a snack.

Bottlenose dolphins are found in warm water all over the world. They live both in shallow water close to shore and far out in deep dark water. Dolphins face a lot of problems with getting trapped in the garbage humans leave on the beach.

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Thought to be some of the smartest animals on Earth, bottlenose dolphins send messages to one another in many different ways. They squeak, squawk and use body language-leaping as high as 20 feet in the air, snapping their jaws, slapping their tails on the surface of the water, blowing bubbles and even butting heads.

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What is the smallest mammal in the world?

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What does a gecko sound like?

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What is a gecko?

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Gecko Video - how do they walk on walls?

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Gecko Video - how do they walk on walls?

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Gecko Feet: How Do They Stick to Walls? | National Geographic

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myra do sharks breath through there fins like fish

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myra do sharks breath through there fins like fish

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Why does The ;ladybug have spots

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The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

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CHALLENGE! What is the largest animal in the world?

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CHALLENGE! What is the largest animal in the world?

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This is where you'll discover fun (and furry!) animal facts about our planet's incredible wildlife. From majestic mammals and soaring birds to super sea creatures and curious creepy crawlies - it's an animal lover's dream!

Discover rare and unusual species, brilliant bears, fierce felines, awesome reptiles and incredible marine life, just to name a few.

Learn animal facts about habitat, behaviour, speed and appetite (beware, the great white shark!) and most importantly, discover the threats that many of these amazing animals face today.

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Animal facts for kids | National Geographic Kids

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Discover fun (and furry!) animal facts about our planet's incredible wildlife. From majestic mammals, soaring birds, super sea creatures & creepy crawlies!

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CHALLENGE! What is the smallest animal in the world?

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CHALLENGE! What is the smallest animal in the world?

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This is where you'll discover fun (and furry!) animal facts about our planet's incredible wildlife. From majestic mammals and soaring birds to super sea creatures and curious creepy crawlies - it's an animal lover's dream!

Discover rare and unusual species, brilliant bears, fierce felines, awesome reptiles and incredible marine life, just to name a few.

Learn animal facts about habitat, behaviour, speed and appetite (beware, the great white shark!) and most importantly, discover the threats that many of these amazing animals face today.

Ready for an adventure, gang? Click about to get started!

Type whatever you want to search

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Animal facts for kids | National Geographic Kids

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Discover fun (and furry!) animal facts about our planet's incredible wildlife. From majestic mammals, soaring birds, super sea creatures & creepy crawlies!

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Are you struggling with classifying animals?

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Are you struggling with classifying animals?

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Learn about amphibians and their characteristics and classification. Free online activities and games for kids.

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How do venes fly traps dusnot have big tummy is not fat.

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Swimming Sloth Searches For Mate | Planet Earth II | BBC Earth

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Where does venus fly trap lives?

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Why do boy lions have a mane?

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Lion prides can be as small as 3 or as big as 40 animals. In a pride, lions hunt prey, raise cubs, and defend their territory together. In prides the females do most of the hunting and cub rearing. Usually all the lionesses in the pride are related-mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and sisters.

Many of the females in the pride give birth at about the same time. A cub may nurse from other females as well as its mother. Each pride generally will have no more than two adult males.

While the females usually live with the pride for life, the males often stay for only two to four years. After that they go off on their own or are evicted by other males who take over the pride. When a new male becomes part of the pride it is not unusual for him to kill all the cubs, ensuring that all future cubs will have his genes. The main job of males in the pride is defending the pride's territory. A male's loud roar, usually heard after sunset, can carry for as far as five miles (eight kilometers). The roar warns off intruders and helps round up stray members of the pride.

Hunting generally is done in the dark by the lionesses. They often hunt in groups of two or three, using teamwork to stalk, surround, and kill their prey. Lionesses aren't the most successful of hunters, because they usually score only one kill out of several tries. After the kill the males usually eat first, lionesses next-and the cubs get what's left. Males and females fiercely defend against any outside lions that attempt to join their pride.

Because of their size, strength, and predatory skills, lions are considered one of the "big cats." Tigers, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, and cougars are also part of this grouping.

Take the big cat quiz to see how much you know about these fierce felines. Then, just for fun, see which wild cat you're most like with our personality quiz.

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For all of their roaring, growling, and ferociousness, lions are family animals and truly social in their own communities. They usually live in groups of 15 or more animals called prides. Prides can be as small as 3 or as big as 40 animals.

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Why do they hav wings

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why does ladybug changes colour from yello eggs to ladybugs? why are they not red eggs?

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Most people like ladybugs because they are pretty, graceful, and harmless to humans. But farmers love them because they eat aphids and other plant-eating pests. One ladybug can eat up to 5,000 insects in its lifetime! Most ladybugs have oval, dome-shaped bodies with six short legs. Depending on the species, they can have spots, stripes, or no markings at all. Seven-spotted ladybugs are red or orange with three spots on each side and one in the middle. They have a black head with white patches on either side.

Ladybugs are colorful for a reason. Their markings tell predators: "Eat something else! I taste terrible." When threatened, the bugs will secrete an oily, foul-tasting fluid from joints in their legs. They may also play dead. Birds are ladybugs' main predators, but they also fall victim to frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies. Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have gathered. Larvae, which vary in shape and color based on species, emerge in a few days. Seven-spotted ladybug larvae are long, black, and spiky-looking with orange or yellow spots. Some say they look like tiny alligators. Larvae grow quickly and shed their skin several times. When they reach full size, they attach to a leaf by their tail, and a pupa is formed. Within a week or two, the pupa becomes an adult ladybug.

Ladybugs are happy in many different habitats, including grasslands, forests, cities, suburbs, and along rivers. Seven-spotted ladybugs are native to Europe but were brought to North America in the mid-1900s to control aphid populations. Ladybugs are most active from spring until fall. When the weather turns cold, they look for a warm, secluded place to hibernate, such as in rotting logs, under rocks, or even inside houses. These hibernating colonies can contain thousands of ladybugs.

The name "ladybug" was coined by European farmers who prayed to the Virgin Mary when pests began eating their crops. After ladybugs came and wiped out the invading insects, the farmers named them "beetle of Our Lady." This eventually was shortened to "lady beetle" and "ladybug." NASA even sent a few ladybugs into space with aphids to see how aphids would escape in zero gravity.

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There are about 5,000 different species of ladybugs in the world. These much loved critters are also known as lady beetles or ladybird beetles. They come in many different colors and patterns, but the most familiar in North America is the seven-spotted ladybug, with its shiny, red-and-black body.

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Does Venus Flytraps come in differnt sizes?

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Does the venus flytrap drink water and how?

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Riyana : why do they like to eat flies? What are the hairy spikes inside their mouth for?

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Riyana : why do they like to eat flies? What are the hairy spikes inside their mouth for?

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The Duck-billed platypus ( Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a small mammal of the order Monotremata. It lives in eastern Australia.

It lives in rivers and on river banks. It is one of only two families of mammals which lay eggs. The other is the Echidna, which has four species. The platypus was first described in detail in the early 19th century, but it took a while before biologists in England believed what they were reading.

These mammals are called monotremes because they have a common rear opening known as the cloaca. Through this opening faeces and urine are voided (put out), and physical activity takes place. This is a primitive (' basal') feature of tetrapods, which monotremes, birds and reptiles have today. The more 'advanced' (' derived') mammals have the system where the rear has two openings.

The plural of platypus is just 'platypus'.

What sort of animal is it?

The platypus looks similar to a beaver with a brown, furry body and wide, flat tail. Unlike a beaver, it has no feet (no toes), which are good for swimming. Its nose is large and rubbery. The platypus is sometimes called "duck billed platypus" because of this nose. It is similar to a duck's bill (mouth). Platypus can be big or small. The larger platypus live in Tasmania while the smaller ones live in Queensland. Adults can be less than 1 kg (2 lb) or up to 3 kg (7 lb). Its body can be from 30 cm (12 in) to 40 cm (16 in) long. Its tail can be from 10 cm (4 in) to 15 cm (6 in) long. Males are about one-third (1/3) larger than females.

The male platypus has a sharp spine on his two back legs called ankle spurs which contain a poison. It will not kill humans, but the poison has been known to kill small animals, such as dogs, and cause pain lasting as long as four months. The amount of poison increases during the breeding season.

How platypus live

The platypus sleeps during the day, and moves mostly at night. It is a very good swimmer and spends much of its time in the water. The toes on its feet are joined. When it swims, it pushes itself along by moving the front two feet. The tail and back feet help it to turn left or right, but does not make it faster.

The platypus eats other animals. It eats worms, insect larvae, shrimps and yabbies, which are a kind of freshwater crayfish. It digs these animals out of the bottom of the river with its beak, or catches them while swimming. Its nose can sense many things that other noses cannot. The platypus can sense electricity from other animals. It keeps its eyes shut when swimming, using only its other senses, such as hearing, touch and changes in the electrical field. The platypus can also hunt without using its eyes. These are adaptations to life in rivers where the water is opaque with sediment.

Reproduction

When on land, the platypus lives in burrows on the river banks. These holes are between 3 m (10 ft) and 8 m (26 ft) long. It makes these holes in the river bank a little above the water. It likes them hidden under roots. When a female platypus is pregnant, the female makes much larger holes, up to 20 m (66 ft) long. She blocks the tunnel with earth at several places. At the end of the tunnel, she builds a nest out of reeds for her eggs.

The platypus lays eggs in its nest. When the babies come out of the eggs after about ten days, they hold on to the mother. The mother makes milk for the new babies. The platypus does not have nipples, but milk comes through small openings in the skin. The young platypus drinks the milk from the mother's skin while she lies on her back. At six weeks the babies have fur and are able to leave the burrow for short trips. After four months they no longer need their mother's milk.

The long period as dependent young, the provision of milk, and the way the young learn through play, are all advanced features. The monotremes share them with all other mammals. The monotremes are a mixture of primitive and advanced traits, a situation known as mosaic evolution.

Where platypus live

The platypus lives in small streams and rivers over a large area of eastern Australia. The map above shows this with dark purple. It has been seen in alpine lakes in Tasmania in the south, and north in Queensland as far as the Cape York Peninsula in tropical rain forest rivers.

In the past, platypus lived in South Australia but they no longer do so. There are platypus on Kangaroo Island, but these were brought there in an attempt to save animals people thought might become extinct. There are very few if any platypuses left in most the Murray-Darling Basin. The water there is no good because people used it to grow plants, and cleared the trees from the land. It is strange that the platypus does not live in some healthy rivers. It does live in some less healthy coastal rivers, for example the Maribyrnong River in Victoria.

Platypus are difficult to see in the wild. They dislike areas with people, spend most of their time underground or under water, and sleep during the day. At Eungella National Park in Queensland, there are spots on the river with viewing areas where wild platypus can usually be seen each evening.

The past and the future

The first platypus specimen arrived in England in 1799. They sent the skin of a dead platypus, so biologists could study it. At first, the scientists thought the skin was a joke, because they thought no animal could look so strange. They thought an Asian had made it from pieces of different animals.

National Geographic magazine had a story on the platypus in 1939. Many people all over the world had never heard of the platypus. The story told how hard it was to raise platypus babies in zoos. Even today, humans have raised only few platypus. David Fleay at the Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria had the first successful zoo raised platypus in 1946. He nearly did it again in 1972 at the David Fleay Wildlife Park at Burleigh Heads, Queensland, but it died at 50 days. Healesville raised another in 1998 and again in 2000. Taronga Zoo in Sydney bred twins in 2003, and had another birth in 2006.

The platypus will probably not die out completely in the near future. Ecologists say that it is secure but faces future threat (safe now but not in the future) or common but vulnerable (there are a lot now but they are not safe). They say this because people can make the water unsafe for the platypus.

Images for kids

Frederick Nodder's illustration from the first scientific description in 1799 of " Platypus anatinus"

Dentition, as illustrated in Knight's Sketches in Natural History

Reconstruction of ancient platypus relative Steropodon

In Spanish: Ornithorhynchus anatinus para niños

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The Stunning Life Cycle Of A Ladybug | The Dodo

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Trisha - why does the Venus fly trap have a pink flower?

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Trisha - why does the Venus fly trap have a pink flower?

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I don't know what is Venus Flytrap habitat. Can I grow one at home?
Does it grow from a seed?

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Gwyneth Cho- Why do Venus fly trap has six hairs not two or three?

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Gwyneth Cho- Why do Venus fly trap has six hairs not two or three?

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I think they are so cute!

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Check out this Venus flay trap catching its lunch!

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Check out this Venus flay trap catching its lunch!

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Hungry Venus flytraps snap shut on a host of unfortunate flies | Life - BBC

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Andrey- How does the hair on the Venus fly trap catch its prey?

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Andrey- How does the hair on the Venus fly trap catch its prey?

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How does the hair work?

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How does the Venus flytrap grow from a seed?

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How does the Venus flytrap grow from a seed?