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Amazing Facts About Springhare

The springhare, also known as springhaas, very much looks like a small kangaroo and like a rabbit with long powerful legs. They are found in southern and eastern Africa. Though earlier listed with the...

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Cool Facts About Raccoon

Raccoon, the bandit of the wild, is one gorgeous looking creature intricately carved by nature. Though its physical features resembles greatly to that of a fox or coyote, it is actually related to...

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Interesting Facts About Red Deer

When one thinks of a deer; an image of a meek, petrified, and a naive animal comes to mind. To the contrary, this species of deer, Red Deer, is comparatively stout and strongly built. These creatures...

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Facts About Iberian Lynx

It looks Egyptian, with its tiny little beard and sphinx like aura. It hunts like a Greek, with stealth like killing foreplay; creeping through its den, waiting silently on a tree or a rock, and in a...

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Fun Facts About Siamang Gibbon

Large, dark and noisy! Yes, that is how a siamang is. Found mostly in the forests of Southern Asia particularly in Malaysia, Thailand and Sumatra, the siamang gibbon is the largest of all the species...

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Interesting Facts About Moose

Moose is a ruminant animal with even toes and cud-chewing characteristics of a typical land herbivore. The name moose has originated from the Algonquian Eastern Abnaki named ‘moz’ which means twig...

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Cool Facts About Porcupine

Porcupines, like monkeys, are divided into old world and new world species. They are very peaceful yet territorial rodents and may become offensive when threatened. Still you will find them adorable at...

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Amazing Facts About Pinniped

Pinnipeds are semi-marine mammals that can live on land as well as water. Walrus, Eared Seals (Sea-lion and fur seals), and Earless seals belong to the pinniped family. Unlike other mammals with hands,...

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Fun Facts About Oryx

The graceful oryx belongs to the category of being one of the rarest mammals on earth. This animal is so much adapted to the parched and brutally hot landscape that its ability to go on without water...

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Information About Mules

Mule is a hybrid produced when a male donkey (jack) mates with a female horse (mare). A mule is unable to reproduce naturally because of its irregular chromosome count. Since 1500s, there have been...

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Cool Facts About Meerkat

An animated film produced by the BBC presented the daily struggles of a family of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Do you know which movie it was? The Meerkats! The movie beautifully describes the...

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Fun Facts About Kudu

Kudu, a very unique and beautiful animal, belongs to the group of antelopes. The range of kudus stretches from eastern to southern areas, and includes Ethiopia, Tanzania, Eritrea, Kenya, Zambia,...

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Amazing Facts About Mandrill

“No other member in the whole class of mammals is coloured in so extraordinary a manner as the adult male mandrills”—Chales Darwin Red and blue coloured nose and multi-coloured back of mandrills make...

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Facts About Long Nosed Bandicoots

Long nosed bandicoot, an insect eating marsupial, is the largest member of the genus perameles and belongs to the family of Peramelidae. Restricted to the lands of Australia and Tasmania, these pests...

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Amazing Facts About Hyenas

Hyenas inhabit parts of African and Asian continents that include typical savannah, thorn bust, and stony desert. Hyaenidae, the fourth smallest biological family of the carnivore order, belongs to...

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Information About Hispid Hare

Hispid hares are among those shy and secretive mammals whose scientific study is partially complete. Once this rare specie was spread across north-eastern India, southern Nepal, and northern Bangladesh...

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Fun Facts About Jaguar

Best known to resemble leopard, a jaguar is larger and of muscular built and its behaviour is closer to that of a tiger. It has a solid body, big head, and powerful jaw. Its coat has a yellow and tan...

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Interesting Facts About Jackal

“When the tiger kills, the jackal profits”, this old proverb portrays jackal in a very poor light as a mere scavenger. They are in fact very fascinating animals that will engage you ever more, once you...

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From The Beautiful To The Bizarre

The Natural History Museum in London is one place everyone must try and visit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdQDm4gdSOc

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The Dolphin Came Really Close To This Man… What It Does Is Super Adorable!

Like many people do on vacation, the man in the video below visited a dolphin attraction during a trip to the Bahamas with his family. But, this lucky fellow got much more than he bargained for.“On our...

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