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There are currently 264 known monkey species.

Apes are not monkeys.

Some monkeys live on the ground, while others live in trees.

Different monkey species eat a variety of foods, such as fruit, insects, 

flowers, leaves and reptiles.

Groups of monkeys are known as a ‘tribe’, ‘troop’ or ‘mission’.

The Pygmy Marmoset is the smallest type of monkey, with adults 

weighing between 120 and 140 grams.

The Mandrill is the largest type of monkey, with adult males weighing 

up to 35 kg.

There are two types of elephant, the Asian elephant and the African 

elephant.

Elephants are the largest land-living mammal in the world.

Female elephants are called cows. They start to have calves when they 

are about 12 years old and they are pregnant for 22 months.

An elephant can use its tusks to dig for ground water. An adult elephant 

needs to drink around 210 litres of water a day.

Elephants have large, thin ears. Their ears are made up of a complex 

network of blood vessels which help regulate their temperature. Blood is 

circulated through their ears to cool them down in hot climates.

Sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies. Instead they have a 

skeleton made up of cartilage; the same type of tough, flexible tissue 

that makes up human ears and noses.

Sharks have outstanding hearing. They can hear a fish thrashing in the 

water from as far as 500 metres away!

If a shark was put into a large swimming pool, it would be able to 

smell a single drop of blood in the water.

A pup (baby shark) is born ready to take care of itself. The mother 

shark leaves the pup to fend for itself and the pup usually makes a 

fast get away before the mother tries to eat it!

Great whites are the deadliest shark.

Anteaters are edentate animals—they have no teeth. 

But their long tongues are more than sufficient to lap up 

the 35,000 ants and termites they swallow whole each 

day.

The anteater uses its sharp claws to tear an opening into 

an anthill and put its long snout and efficient tongue to 

work. But it has to eat quickly, flicking its tongue up to 

160 times per minute. Ants fight back with painful stings, 

so an anteater may spend only a minute feasting on 

each mound. Anteaters never destroy a nest, preferring 

to return and feed again in the future.

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