MrsDewwBerry
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Koalas can sleep for up to 22 hours a day.
Koala need more sleep than most animals, because their diet of eucalyptus leaves contain toxins, are very low in nutrition, and high in fibrous matter – so they take a large amount of energy to digest!
Speaking of koalas - have you heard the males when they're mating? Scary stuff!
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Did you know that when it comes to warming and egg and staying home, it's the daddy penguin? Mummy penguins go out to bring home to bacon (or more accurately, fish)!
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Nutforge
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Man my animal fact doesn’t sound as cool… but anyway did you know that the platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs?!
platypus fact: Duck-billed platypus don’t have nipples, instead they concentrate milk to their belly and feed their young by sweating it out.
The milk emerges from pores in the skin of the abdomen which the platypus puggles then lap up.
Tardigrades can survive in space and go without eating for more than 10 years.
Tardigrades are microscopic animals with crazy endurance abilities. They can survive in temperatures as high as 149oC or as low as -272oC and pressures 6 times more intense than the bottom of the ocean. They also look like tiny bears!
Chrysopelea are most commonly known as the flying snake, or gliding snake. They are a genus of the family Colubridae, the largest snake family to 51% of all known living snakes.
There are 5 species of flying snake, which inhabit jungles, forests and woodlands of South and Southeast Asia. They can ‘fly’ from trees gliding as far as 330 feet (100 metres).