Turns out, some lizards are capable of walking on water and some owls keep tiny snakes as pets in their nests. With 8.7 million species of animals sharing the world with us, it is pretty much impossible to know everything about each of them in detail.

But I've compiled 10 surprising facts we may not have heard before about some of our friends from the other kingdom. Enjoy!

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1. Owls keep snakes as pets
Eastern screech owls catch tiny snakes and bring them back to their nests alive. The reason is because the snakes will eat bugs and keep their owl babies safe. A study found that parent owls knowingly do this to increase the chance of their babies’ survival.

2. Pooping is life-threatening for Sloths
Sloths only defecate once a week and whenever they do, they lose 1/3 of their total body weight.

3. Some Lizards can walk on water
The common basilisk is a species of lizard that can easily walk, and even run, on water. It is found in rainforests and often uses this ability to run away from predators.

4. A Zebra's stripes are a natural insect repellent
The black and white on a zebra’s body helps them keep pesky flies and mosquitoes away. This happens because the pattern “confuses” the insects. According to experts, this could work for humans too.

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5. A Donkey can defeat a pack of coyotes
As bizarre as it sounds, farmers keep donkeys around to protect their herds from coyotes, like watchmen. When confronted with a pack of coyotes, donkeys make loud sounds to scare them away. If necessary, they attack the coyotes with their legs and teeth, sometimes even killing them.

6. Cats are responsible for wiping out at least 33 animal species into extinction
In the US alone, cats kill billions of animals over the span of a year. They are responsible for the deaths of 1.4 −3.7 billion birds and 6.9-20.7 billion mammals annually. It’s not just that, so far at current count, they’ve completely wiped out a total of 33 species from the world.

7. New born Ducks can act like other animals
New born Ducklings adopt the mannerisms of the first animal they see. This is known as “imprinting.” They are unaware of themselves as a species and mistake the first thing they see as their parent. They can imprint on humans too.

8. The heartbeat of a giant blue whale can be as slow as 2 beats per minute
The heartrate of a blue whale was measured for the first time last year and it was found that it could be as low as 2 beats per minute. The maximum was found to be 37.

9. Elephants have over 300 billion neurons in their brain. They're among the smartest animals
Elephant brains are very similar to human brains. They have over 300 billion neurons and can carry out a number of human-like emotions, like feeling grief and compassion, learning new things, using tools, etc.

10. African Penguins can accurately mimic a donkey
Looking like the exact opposite of how you’d picture a penguin, the African penguin makes a donkey’s bray-like sound to communicate.

https://brightside.me/wonder-animals/10-facts-about-the-animal-kingdom-that-prove-we-still-have-a-lot-to-learn-798249/

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