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The kingdom of animals is fascinating. The interaction, survival, and beauty of animals is worth understanding and studying. Not that we're biased or anything, but we think ducks are the best animals ever. Check out your favorite animal or type of animal below to learn more about them. We also have lots of fun facts about animals, so enjoy, and we hope you learn something about animals along the way.
Conservation status:

V - Vulnerable

E - Endangered

CR - Critically endangered

** Note: Some larger groups such as penguins and butterflies have species that are endangered, but the entire group is not marked.

There may be nothing more beautiful than to observe animals in their natural habitat. Here is a picture of our favorite animal (the amazing duck!) in it's natural habitat hanging out on the water.
Activities

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If you love animals, you might also like to check out ourlist of animal movies for kids.
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The kingdom of animals is fascinating. The interaction, survival, and beauty of animals is worth understanding and studying. Not that we're biased or anything, but we think ducks are the best animals ever. Check out your favorite animal or type of animal below to learn more about them.

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Fact Sheets for many animals

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Animal Facts

Enjoy our wide range of fun animal facts for kids. Children will love reading the crazy, cool, strange, weird, odd and funny information as well as did you know facts and other interesting animal info that will help them learn a thing or two along the way. Learning about animals is great fun. Whether it's endangered African animals, sea animals, wild animals or pets, there are so many amazing types of animals that each have their own characteristics and behaviors. Living in all parts of the world, these animals include cats, dogs, insects, birds, sharks, gorillas, frogs, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, horses, sharks and many more.

Lions

Lions are powerful and ferocious but did you know that female lions do most of the hunting? Enjoy lots more interesting lion information with these fun facts.

Frogs

Frogs begin life as tadpoles before they develop into a fully grown frog. Find out why they need to live near water and more cool frog facts.

More fun animal facts:

Rats breed so quickly that in just 18 months, 2 rats could have created over 1 million relatives.

The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away.

Horses and cows sleep while standing up.

Giant Arctic jellyfish have tentacles that can reach over 36 metres in length.

Locusts have leg muscles that are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

Hummingbirds are so agile and have such good control that they can fly backwards.

Instead of bones, sharks have a skeleton made from cartilage.

Insects such as bees, mosquitoes and cicadas make noise by rapidly moving their wings.

The horn of a rhinoceros is made from compacted hair rather than bone or another substance.

Sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world.

Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

Unlike humans, sheep have four stomachs, each one helps them digest the food they eat.

Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur (which is transparent), it actually has black skin.

As well as being a famous Looney Tunes character, the Tasmanian Devil is a real animal that is only found in the wild in Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world.

The average housefly only lives for 2 or 3 weeks.

Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.

Cats use their whiskers to check whether a space is too small for them to fit through or not.

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Fun Animal Facts for Kids - Crazy, Cool, Funny, Amazing, Interesting

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Animal Facts Enjoy our wide range of fun animal facts for kids. Children will love reading the crazy, cool, strange, weird, odd and funny information as well as did you know facts and other interesting animal info that will help them learn a thing or two along the way.

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Type in your animals name in the search bar or click on the "animals" tab

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National Geographic