Mammals - Facts for Kids

Close-up of African elephant's face showing wrinkled skin, eye, and large ivory tusk in natural habitat.

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Random Facts About Mammals For Kids

The coat of the African wild dog is a crazy mix of black, brown, yellow and white patches — and that helps it hide in the grasses and bushes of the African savanna!

A zebra’s stripes help confuse predators when the herd moves together, making it hard to pick out a single target!

Diet & Feeding

Marmots eat many types of grasses, flowers, fruits, leaves, seeds, herbs, and other plants, with their diet changing depending on what’s available in their habitat.

A male mouse is called a buck, a female is called a doe, and baby mice are called pups!

The eastern woolly lemur can eat leaves containing chemicals that would make most other animals sick!