- Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly. With 985 species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species.
- There is a vine in Madagascar that is pollinated exclusively by lemurs.
- Anteaters are the only mammals to have no teeth.
- A female kangaroo can produce 2 different kinds of milk at the same time when she is suckling youngsters of different ages.
- Shrews have such a fast metabolism they have to eat 1.3 times their own weight in food everyday.
- Naked mole rats and Siberian hamsters can navigate by sensing the earth's magnetic field.
- The top two rows of a cat's whiskers can move independently of the lower two rows.
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