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1. Elephants are excellent swimmers but they cannot trot, jump, or gallop.

2. Elephants have an exceptional sense of hearing. This is because their hearing receptors are not located only in their ears, but also in trunks that are sensitive to vibrations, and even more significantly feet, which have special receptors for low frequency sound.

3. 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans.

4. Lions are the only members of the cat family where males and females look distinctly different.

5. During a mating bout, a lion couple may copulate 20 to 40 times a day for several days.

6. The night vision of tigers is six times better than that of humans.

7. Tiger paws are powerful enough to smash the skulls of domestic cattle, and break the backs of sloth bears.

8. There are more than 20,000 ants species living on our planet.

9. Ant queen can live up to 30 years, significantly longer than the ant workers who live up to 3 years.

10. Army ants can consume up to 100,000 prey animals each day.

11. Polar bears can breed with brown bears, and the result of this breeding are fertile grizzly–polar bear hybrids.

12. Fat polar bears rarely attack humans (it takes serious provocation to get them going), but hungry polar bears have extremely unpredictable behavior and there were some cases when hungry polar bear killed and sometimes even ate human.

13. The giraffe needs less food than typical grazing animals because the foliage it eats has more concentrated nutrition and it has a more efficient digestive system compared to other grazing animals.

14. Giraffe, in average, sleeps less than 2 hours per day.

15. The DNA of gorillas is between 95 and 99% the same as ours.

16. Almost all gorillas have the same blood type (B).

17. Cheetah is the fastest land animal. Adult cheetah can reach speeds between 112 and 120 km/h (70 and 75 mph).

18. Cheetah can purr but not roar like lions and tigers can.

19. The cheetah kills its prey by tripping it during the chase, then biting it on the underside of the throat to suffocate it.

20. Some dolphin species have up to 250 teeth.