var arrayFacts=[ "Devil Whiskers:

A Tasmanian devil uses its whiskers in a similar way to a cat.

Whiskers help them to locate food when foraging at night, and help them to figure out where to ‘park’ themselves around carrion during communal feeding.

If they’re not touching another devil with their whiskers then they are safely outside of biting range.", "A Tall Tail:

A Tasmanian devil’s hairy tail is 10 inches long, and is a good indicator of its mood.

An upheld tail is a sure sign of aggression for other devils.", "Big Headed:

An adult male Tasmanian devil has a disproportionately big head. Its head and neck can amount to nearly a quarter of their total body weight.

Younger devils have much smaller heads, and are much better hunters and tree-climbers than older animals.", "A newborn zebra can walk within 20 minutes.", "At birth, zebra foals are dark brown and white.

They are able to walk 20 minutes after being born and can run within an hour. This is necessary so that the foal can move with its mother and the herd.", "Barely Born:
A newborn kangaroo is more helpless than a human baby. When first born, the joey is essentially a fetus – blind and no larger than a fly.

It breaks free of the birth sac, and swims to the mother’s pouch using its sense of smell.

The joey finds and latches onto a nipple and stays physically fused there for 4-5 months.", "Drawstring Pouch:
A female kangaroo can control the size of their pouch and the size of the opening.

A female can contract her muscles, pulling the pouch tight against her body, just like a drawstring bag.

If she wants to remove the joey from her pouch, she can relax her muscles to loosen the opening so the joey can fall out.", "Who Needs Public Transportation?

Like a pogo stick or a bouncing ball, the hopping kangaroo is able to keep moving while barely expending any additional energy. In fact, the faster they hop, the less energy it takes them to move!

Kangaroos have powerful calf muscles and numerous tendons in their tail.

It is believed that the combination of these muscles and tendons help give the kangaroo its energy and resilience.", "Big Foot:
Kangaroos belong to a group of marsupials called 'macropods', which means 'great-footed animals.' All kangaroos have strong back legs and long feet.", "Big Feet, Small Hands The feet of large gray kangaroos can be 18 inches long. Their forepaws are small by comparison and appear hand-like because they have five digits.", "You Should Be Afraid:

Rats carry as many as 20 different diseases. The Guinness Book of World Records states that rats are the most dangerous small mammals because of their ability to spread deadly illnesses.", "Rats Must Be Stopped:

Rats destroy almost 33% of the world's food supply every year. As if that weren't enough, 25% of all fires of 'unknown origin' are caused by rats.", "The Adorable Rat?:
Rats that have low-hanging ears are called 'dumbo rats.' Due to a genetic mutation, the docile dumbo rat has large, floppy ears that resemble those of the cartoon elephant that shares its name.

Because these ears can look rather adorable, they are a popular pet!", "Need to gain a little weight

The Polar Bear needs extra weight for pregnancy. Female polar bears must gain up to 440 pounds when pregnant in order to have a successful pregnancy.", "Polar bear mothers
Polar bears start mating when they are about 4 years old. The mating occurs in the spring, which gives a pregnant polar bear enough time to gain the extra weight needed to keep her warm during the harsh winter.

If a mother does not gain enough weight, her pregnancy will not go well. The male polar bear helps the female hunt for seal pups - an excellent source of fat and protein. Once the cubs are born, they will remain with their mother for a little over two and a half years before they leave the den.", "Air conditioning.
The polar bear is the world’s largest land carnivore. It might be surprising that these animals are in danger, but climate change is causing the disappearance of sea ice, from which polar bears hunt their prey.

If current heating does not change polar bears could be extinct within one hundred years.", "Not Drunk, Digesting...

Contrary to popular myth, koalas do not sleep because they are drunk off of gum leaves.

They spend most of their time sleeping because their diet of eucalyptus leaves requires a lot of energy to digest, and sleeping is one of the best ways to conserve energy.", "Picky Eaters:

There are over 600 varieties of eucalyptus trees, but the koala is a fussy eater and will only eat from several species.", "Koala Table Manners:

Koalas communicate with each other by making a range of vocal noises.

Despite their gentle appearance, they can make a startling sound known as a bellow, which sounds like a loud snore, followed by an even louder belch.

Australian school children love to imitate the sounds a koala makes.", "Cute, But Not So Bright:

The koala, one of Australia’s most popular native animals, has an unusually small brain, which resembles a shriveled walnut. About 40% of the cranial cavity filled with fluid.", "Permanent Vacation:

Koalas rest for about 20 hours a day, sleeping most of that time cradled within the forked branches of a tree.", "All talk!

The intimidating chest-beating behavior of a charging male gorilla is a bluff to scare off intruders while the rest of his band disappears into the forest.", "Hey cous.

Gorillas possess 92%-98% of the same nuclear DNA as humans, making them our second closest relative (behind the chimpanzee).", "Lots of munching.

More than half of a gorilla's day is spent eating.", "The silver stocks are up!

The famous “Silver Backs” are mountain gorillas. The hair of the mountain gorilla is longer than the others, and adult males have a prominent crest on top of the skull and a “saddle” of gray or silver hairs on the lower part of the back — hence the term silverback.", "All thumbs.

A giant panda has paws unlike any other bear. Pandas usually eat sitting upright, this way they can use their dextrous paws to grasp their food.

They have five clawed fingers plus an extra-long wrist bone that works like an opposable thumb.", "China doll

The giant panda can only be found in China. An extremely well known and beloved animal, there may be as few as 1,600 today.
Even though they are called panda bears by some people, the panda is actually more closely related to a raccoon than a bear.", "The tooth fairy

Giant pandas have a total of 42 teeth. Strong teeth and jaws are important to the panda’s survival as they spend most of their time chewing through tough bamboo.

Unlike other bears, giant pandas don’t hibernate in winter – their diet of bamboo isn’t nourishing enough to fatten them up for the winter months.", "Born to Run!

A caribou calf can run within 90 minutes of its birth.

Newborns can walk within an hour, run within an hour and a half, and in a few days can outrun a person.

They have to be able to do this to keep up with the migrating herd. Adult caribou can run at speeds of 50 miles per hour.", "Movers and Shakers.

Caribou are constantly on the move, looking for food sources.

During summer they eat the leaves of willows, sedges, flowering tundra plants, and mushrooms. In winter, they eat dried grass and plants, small shrubs such as blueberry and lichens, which are also called ‘reindeer moss’.", "Swimming upstream!
Caribou are extremely strong swimmers. They can move across wide rushing rivers and the frozen waters of the Arctic.

They have unique hairs which trap air and provide them with insulation to keep them warm in harsh Arctic conditions.", "Record Rodents:

Capybaras are the largest rodents in the world.", "Pulling their hair out.

A camel can shed as much as 5 pounds of hair every time it moults [sheds].

Camel hair is of extremely high quality and in demand around the world for coats, garments and artists' brushes. Bedouins also use camel hair to make traditional rugs and tents.", "Where's the closest bank?
King Masud I, ruler of India from 1030 to 1040, carried his entire state treasury - as much as 150,000,000 - on the backs of 3,000 personally-trained camels.

Each camel was taught a different password. When it was time to give a creditor his money, the king would give the creditor the password for a camel that carried the exact sum needed. The camel could only be led away to unload its cargo when the proper password was spoken.", "Watch a camel to find good water.

Camels will only drink clean water. For that reason, when people stop to get water they will let the camel drink first, assuring the quality.", "Self-heaters.Another trick a camel has is that it can raise its body temperature up to 6 degrees higher without hurting itself. This way it doesn't start to sweat until the air gets really hot.", "Anybody have a dime?

The bumblebee bat is so small it only weighs as much as a dime. It measures 30-40 millimeters in length and weighs 2 grams or less.

They live in Thailand and Myanmar, though they are so small that scientists are uncertain if any species exist elsewhere. Bumblebee bats eat spiders and other insects, and have long wings with pointed tips that dwarf the rest of their bodies.", "The biggest eats the smallest!
The blue whale is the largest mammal in the world. It can grow to be about 110 feet long and weigh up to 285,000 pounds.

In spite of its size, it feeds only on some of the smallest organisms on Earth: the plankton.", "A little something put away.

A blue whale can go without food for 6 months, subsisting on stored blubber.", "Slow hearted.

A blue whale's heart beats only 9 times a minute.", "I need to speed up my metabolism.

The blue whale has the slowest metabolism of all animals.", "Bigger than all the rest!
The blue whale is not only the largest animal on earth, it is the largest animal that has ever existed. Its length of 110 feet and weight of nearly 200 tons, makes it larger than the Argentinosaurus.

To understand that, think of a pile of 50 elephants. Its blood vessels could be considered a subway system, and its heart could house a car.", "How many elephants does it take...

The blue whale weighs as much as 20 Asian elephants and is as long as 3 Greyhound buses. That's 300,000 pounds (136,000 kg) and 95 feet (29 m) long.", "Scaredy cats.
American bison are famous for running together for miles at the merest hint of danger.

Small herds cluster together to form large herds of several thousand cattle, and one loud snort from a frightened herd member is all it takes to start a stampede.", "Heavy gallops
When galloping bison can reach speeds of 32 miles per hour. Bison stand over 6 feet tall, 10 feet long and weigh over 2,000 pounds.", "Love song.

The European bison has a mating call that can be heard for three miles. During mating season, competition amongst bulls is fierce and there is a lot of ramming of heads and horns and loud bellows.

Bison females have a sneaky trick to make sure they get the best mate possible. Even if they have already been claimed, they will run past other bulls to stir up another fight for their affection.", "They were never even here.

Contrary to popular opinion, large herds of buffalo never roamed North America in the early days of the nation. The animals mistakenly called buffaloes in America were technically bison.

The true buffalo - a native of only Africa and Asia - has long horns. The American bison, which many people called a buffalo, has shorter horns and a more pointed back.", "Breath, Beaver, Breath!

A beaver can hold its breath for 45 minutes.", "Peace and Quiet, Please!

Beaver dams help to raise water levels upstream and prevent flooding downstream. This is not why beavers build dams, though.

New studies show that beavers build dams for another reason--to have peace and quiet! Beaver dams silence the sound of rushing water by slowing it both upstream and downstream.

Beavers that live near calm streams and lakes are less likely to build dams since the rushing sound is not present in these areas.", "Beaver Bricks and Mortar:

Beaver dams are made from anything the creatures can find, but mostly wood blocks, sticks, twigs, mud, stones, and plants.", "Memory Test.

Bears can memorize where they travel with amazing accuracy. Bears travel away from their dens to find food, sometimes several miles.

The bear is equipped with an excellent memory to be able to trace their path back - not only to their dens, but also to the food source when they need to feed again.", "My great, great, great grandfather was...

The now extinct cave bear is believed to be an ancestor of the brown bear. The cave bear was alive during the Pleistocene Period. This species of bear died off around 10,000 years ago during the last ice age.", "Cave bears

Aptly named because most of the fossils were found in caves, the cave bear has very few differences than the brown bear of today. The main difference is that cave bears spent a significant amount of time in caves. Brown bears only use caves to hibernate.

Other differences involve the size and skeletal structure of both bears. Cave bears were bigger than brown bears with slightly steeper foreheads.", "Mmmm, that smells good.

Bears have excellent hearing and an amazing sense of smell. Bears can hear and smell for miles. They have an attuned sense of hearing and sense of sight that allows them to find food and track their prey.

Their heightened senses also allow them to sense predators and other things that are harmful to them by alerting them of the unwanted presence.", "5 claws per paw

Most bears have five long claws per paw, which can be used to defend themselves in the event a predator or hunter gets too close.", "Bad for the crops.

The big brown bat flies at speeds of 40 miles per hour. Native to the Midwest, the big brown bat eats a variety of insects and agricultural pests including June bugs, green stinkbugs, and cucumber beetles.

The cucumber beetle’s larva, the corn root worm probably causes more crop damage than any other agricultural pest in the United States.", "The bat cave.
The gray bat is an endangered bat only found in the central United States. Gray bats hibernate in large colonies in caves during the winter.

Destruction by vandals and disturbance by spelunkers and tourists are the main reasons why the gray bat is now in danger.", "That's a new one.

The Indiana bat was the last mammal in the state of Pennsylvania to be identified as a new species. Indiana bats are black and gray, and can be distinguished from more common bats by their pink lips. Only two caves in Pennsylvania are known to house these flying mammals.", "Short and quick.

Bats are small in comparison to other mammals, but one of the bigger types of the “small” bats is the Big Brown Bat, which can get up to 5 inches in size and weigh 5/8 of an ounce.", "Light and precise

The typical big brown bat is between 4-5 inches long. These bats have long brown fur and can weigh between 1/2 an ounce and 5/8 of an ounce.

The lightness of their bodies allows them to move with incredible speed and precision as they hunt for food and avoid predators such as Owls.", "There are five separate species of baboons.

They can be found in dry regions of Africa and Arabia. Males are the larger of the species, averaging 66 pounds or so, with females only about half that size.

The smallest baboon is the hamadryas, or sacred baboon, with males weighing about 37 pounds. This still places them among the largest monkeys.", "Put up your dukes!

A male baboon can kill a leopard. An adult male pig-tailed baboon may weigh up to 90 pounds (41 kg), and is a formidable fighter.", "A Unique Assistant.

Earning 20 cents a day and half a bottle of beer on Saturdays, Jack, a chacma baboon, worked for a railroad company in South Africa.

His owner, James Wilde, needed an assistant after losing both his legs in a railroad accident, so he trained the baboon to pull the signal levers, to make sure that the correct signal was up, and to fetch kes for the coal bin.

Every morning Jack would push his owner to work in a trolley Wilde had designed. At home Jack, helped with the gardening and chores.", "Seeing double.

The young of the armadillo develop from the same egg and share the same placenta. When born, the babies are all a perfect match with shells as soft as fingernails.", "Putting off pregnancy:

During research using armadillos, some females gave birth 2 years after they were captured!

This is because when stressed, armadillos are able to withhold implantation of the fertilized egg. This ability is one reason the armadillos have been so good at colonization in new areas.", "Sun soakers!

When it cools down at night, armadillos wil hobble out onto the long, straight highways in Texas. Lying on the asphalt, they will soak up the warmth from the road.

Unfortunately because of this the often get killed by cars.", "Jumping into danger

Fewer armadillos be killed if not for their reaction to danger. When car lights startle them, they jump straight up about 3 feet, which puts them in direct line with the metal grillwork of most cars, making them a rather unique hood ornament. If they would just lie still, perhaps they'd have a better chance of survival.", "Hold your breath.

The armadillo can walk underwater; if it fell into deep water, it would simply walk to shore.", "Addax antelopes live in the deserts of Northern Africa.

Their coat changes color from dark grayish-brown in winter to white in the summer. This is an efficient way of maintaining their body temperature in the harsh desert environment.

They are one of the few antelope species where male and females have crooked horns of approximately the same size.", "An antelope's hooves vary according to its living environment.

Different species of antelope have different hooves. 'Sitatungas,' who live in wetlands and swamps, have hooves up to 7 inches wide which help them walk on mud without slipping. 'Lechwes' have long pointed hooves to give them a steady footing in the Nile river. The 'Klipspringer' has small rounded hooves with a pad in the center which acts as a suction cup so they can jump from rock to rock in mountainous terrain.", "Bongo antelopes are surrounded by superstition.

As a result they are far less endangered than other species of antelope. Native Africans believe if they eat or touch bongo antelopes they will have spasms similar to epileptic seizures.", "The elephant's ears are for more than just listening.

African bush elephants have large ears measuring up to 6.5 feet long. Flapping their ears serves two purposes: it cools their body surface as well as cools the blood circulating in their ears. This helps them to lose body heat.

Ironically, elephants, in spite of their ears, actually have very poor hearing.", "They talk too much.

Elephants communicate a lot more than we know. African elephants are capable of making a wide variety of vocal sounds, such as grunts, bellows, whistles and the obvious trumpeting sound.

They also make low frequency sounds that are below the human range of hearing; this allows wandering individuals within the herd as well as in several different herds to stay in direct contact over distances of many miles.", "Wolverines are careful eaters.
Even though the name means glutton, a wolverine never eats more than it needs. After a wolverine finishes its meal, it will spray the remains with musk and bury it, coming back later to finish it off.", "Wolverines are intelligent hunters.
Often wolverines need to be clever when going after larger prey. They will climb onto a rock or stump and wait until something comes along.

Once their prey passes below them, they will pounce onto the animal's back, breaking or severing vital organs to bring it down.", "In the snow wolverines have an advantage.

Their big furry feet act as snowshoes, enabling them to run down their prey.", "They can weasel their way into anything.

Its long, low, sloping body and small head allows the European common weasel to fit into small openings. If a weasel sees a mouse that ducks into its hole, it just goes right down after it.", "Brain as the appetizer.When a weasel catches prey, it savagely bites the back of its head until it kills or stuns it. It will always eat the head and brain first before feasting on the rest of its victim. Smaller weasels tend to be more lively and vicious than larger ones.", "Name changes

The weasel and the ermine are the same animal. The mammal's coat changes with the season. In its white winter coat, it is known as an ermine; in its summer coat, it is the brown weasel.", "The need to mate.
Sometimes if a female ferret doesn't breed while in heat, it can be quite dangerous. From March to August, female ferrets can go into heat more than once and at this time if she does'nt mate, she will remain in heat for up to 160 days.

She then can develop aplastic anemia due to regression of the bone marrow, which can lead to severe illness and even death. This is why it is important to sterilize female ferrets, if not being used for breeding purposes.", "Haven't seen the last of them.
The black-footed ferret were actually thought to be completely extinct until 1981 when a colony was found in Wyoming. The black-footed ferrets were captured and sent to a captive breeding center.

As a result of the captive breeding program, black-footed ferrets now live at seven different sites in the USA, including sites in Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, South Dakota, along the Colorado/Utah border, and Chihuahua, Mexico.", "Do you have health insurance?
A badger was saved by a CAT scan. A badger cub was found asleep in the woods after being abandoned by her parents. When taken to the wildlife center they noticed she had an unusual head shape and was unsteady on her feet.

The hospital agreed to do a CAT scan and the tests revealed severe fluid on the brain. The operation was a total success and the badger, now named CT, was able to return to the wild.", "A few extra rooms.

Badgers live in a sett. A sett is a system of underground tunnels with chambers for nesting and waste materials. In England, an excavation revealed hundreds of underground tunnels that contained 50 chambers and 178 entrances. It was estimated that the construction of the sett required the badgers to remove 70 tons of soil.", "Ditch digger.
The badger is an excellent digging machine. The badger is able to dig faster than any animal, even a man with a shovel.There are accounts of badgers who have popped up through pavement while excavating.

Digging is how the badger catches its prey. It will tunnel after ground-dwelling rodents with such amazing speed that they have no chance of escape."];