By: May Rostom

Animals are truly a wonder. They exhibit passion, love, care, and motherhood without even having a full functioning brain like ours. Here are 10 animal facts you probably didn’t know before.

1. A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
2. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
3. A zebra is white with black stripes.

4. The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest!!
5. Cat urine glows under a black-light.
6. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.


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7. A polar bear’s fur is colorless despite appearing white. It is made with hollow tubes where the rough inner surface of the tubes make light scatter and reflect at many different angles which gives the white appearance.

8. A male horse takes only 14 seconds to copulate.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” Mahatma Gandhi