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Amusing Facts and Traits of 38 Different Mammals

Here’s a long list of mammals in the world with unusual traits and features.

Ring-tailed Lemur can shoot stink bombs to their predators.
Dolphins are amazing animals. They are not just intelligent they also possess psychic powers.
Horses are great animals. They have been part of human culture for thousands of years now. Horses have been known to communicate through various arrays of sign language.
Bengal Tigers are very strong animals. An individual Bengal Tiger can carry a full grown cow up a 10 foot fence.
An Ox is also a very strong animal. It can carry 2,000 pounds across rugged terrain.
Female Koala feed its dung to her kids to keep them healthy.
The male Golden Jackal is the only animal known to babysit regularly.
Would you like to be a male Antechinus? Certainly I don’t because it dies right after mating.
Arctic Fox has great natural camouflage for both the summer and winter to escape predators such as polar bears.
There are about 20 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats that can hang on the ceiling.
There can be three million reindeer in a herd.
Giant Anteaters have long tongues and measures 14 inches.
The male Babirusa can have foot long canine teeth that can pierce into its skull.
Fennex Fox are animals with large ears. Their ears help them keep cool.
Orca can do something beyond the limits of other marine animals: it can land on a beach to catch a seal.
The smell of the Skunk can temporarily blind you for days even if it is 1.5 mi. away.
Spotted Hyenas turn their anal patches into hyena butter.
Hooker’s Sea Lion’s breath smells incredibly horrible.
Star-nosed Mole has an incredible sense of touch.
Tarsiers are amazingly capable to see in the dark.

Meerkats are immune to venom. They feed on scorpions.
Porcupines are one of the most dreaded animals. They will have even the fiercest predators (such as lions and hyenas) running for their life from the porcupine's quills.
Armadillo has armor-like plating to protect it from predators.
Tarh drinks its own urine.
The male Jackal vomits and feeds it to the kids. Yikes!
When caw burps, it produces methane. Numerous cows burping at the same time will produce a lot of methane.
There are about 1.5 million Wildebeests on their migration trail.
About 7,000 male Walruses fight for the right to party at the biggest Bachelor Party on the planet.
House Cats are the only cat that hunts for fun and they hunt over 1,000 species, which includes mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, fish, birds, rats, lizards, small snakes and beetles.
Leopards eat impala, kudus, birds, monkeys, hares, snakes, and fish.
Jaguars eat birds, monkeys, anteaters, boars, deer, sloths, capybaras, turtles, snakes, iguanas, fish, frogs, and crocodiles.
Cougars eat ibex, antelope, mice, jays, birds, berries, small bears and elk.
Snow Leopards are ferocious animals. They eat antelope, ibex, rabbits, mountain goats, yaks, and small birds. Their spots make them almost invisible in the Himalayan Mountains.
The Fishing Cat is the only cat suitable to hunt in the water and eats freshwater fish and eels.
Servals are great leapers. They jump to a height of 10 feet and eats birds, mice, rats, and gazelle.
The weakest female hyena is higher in class than the strongest male. Baby Hyenas start fighting right after they are born.
Tasmanian Devil female would kick the male out of her burrow and prefers to raise the young herself rather than with the father of her children.
Right Whale has the biggest mouth of any animal in the world. Its mouth is 20% of its body length.

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