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Polar bears are the world’s largest land predators.

Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs.

The smallest bird in the world, the hummingbird is immensely fast and swift.

However, their legs are too weak and tiny to support walking.

The most they can manage is to shuffle sideways.

Hummingbirds beat their wings 60 to 80 times per second.

Hummingbirds are the only birds who can fly backwards, upside down and sideways.

No two tigers ever have the same stripes, and this is how individual tigers can be identified.

The fear of animals is called zoophobia.

Every day of the year, 100 whales are killed by whale fisherman.

Hippos can run faster than humans.

What large animal kills the most people in Africa?

Not the lion, and not the crocodile; it is in fact the hippo.

The males are very territorial and will attack anything that enters their area.

Females aggressively protect their babies.

Hippos have even been known to kill crocodiles.



Cape Buffalo are also extremely dangerous; in fact they kill approximately two hundred people annually.

They quickly charge and gore anyone they perceive as a threat.

Cats have lived with people for over 7,000 years.

Chimpanzee close up.

Even though lions are known as “King of the Jungle,” they live in grasslands and plains, not the jungle


Lions are the second largest big cat species in the world (behind tigers).

The average male lion weighs around 180 kg (400 lb) while the average female lion weighs around 130 kg (290 lb).

The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg (826 lb).

Lions can reach speeds of up to 81 kph (50 mph) but only in short bursts because of a lack of stamina.

Lions inhabited many areas of Europe until they were hunted to extinction in the region around 100 BCE.

Lions once lived in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, North America, and Northern India.

Now lions primarily live in Africa, aside from a small group (about 300) Asiatic lions that live in India’s Gir Forest.

There are only about 34,000 lions left in Africa.

Lions in the wild live for around 12 years.

African Lions May Be Extinct by 2050.


In the wild, lions rest for around 20 hours a day.

A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.

The female lion does 90% of the hunting.

Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.

In China, killing a Panda is punishable by death.

Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they buried their nut seeds.

Fénec the Soul of the Desert


“The fennec, or desert fox is a canine mammal species of the genus Vulpes, which inhabits the Sahara Desert and Arabia.

With its features ears, this is the smallest species of the family Canidae.

It is endangered and its main threat is illegal in other countries.”







http://www.boredpanda.com/best-wildlife-photos-from-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest-2013/
https://www.thefactsite.com/2010/09/300-random-animal-facts.html
http://interesting-africa-facts.com/Africa-Animal-Facts/Africa-Animal-Facts.shtml
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Suradita Village, West Java, Indonesia. Children playing with their roosters.

gurunlocker:
These gazelles dey suffer for those wild animals hand like hell...

Most especially the big cats.

An unidentified soldier sits and eats his meal (which includes chicken, mashed potatoes, bread, and pineapple) atop rows of a stockpiled ammunition shells, England, May 1944.

The flight deck crew prepares planes for launch from the USS Lexington (CV-16), en route near New Guinea, early April, 1944.

American troops unloading supplies in 1943.

Close-up, in-flight view of a Douglas SBD Dauntless piloted by American Lt. George Glacken (left) with his gunner Leo Boulanger, near New Guinea, early April, 1944.

American soldier trying to spot German positions during the Allied drive towards Rome, 1944.

Ruins of the town of Monte Cassino, a result of massive Allied bombing during an attempt to dislodge German troops occupying the city, 1944.

Women workers stack live shells destined for the trenches at the huge munitions factory at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire in 1917.

A few months later, on 1 July, 1918, 250 workers were killed when eight tons of these TNT explosive at the factory blew up.

Only 32 bodies could be positively identified.

Local workers helping RAF fitters change the engine of a Lockheed Hudson at Yundum in the Gambia, April 1943.

Meal time


A naval rating collects bread for his mess from the battleship's bakery, November 1942.

A view of bomb damage in the area around St Paul's Cathedral, 1944.

Armourers of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) re-arms a Hawker Hurricane aircraft, 1943.

The German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper abandoned in dry dock at Kiel, May 1945.

Lancaster bombers assembly plant at Woodford near Manchester, 1943.

Women producing bullets and cannon shells in an underground munitions factory on the Wirral, Merseyside, 1945.

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) plotters at work at Coastal Artillery Headquarters in Dover, December 1942.

A Churchill Crocodile flamethrower tank in action, August 1944.