The Most Massive Animals Still Roaming the Planet

The More You Know

• Giant anteaters consume up to 35,000 ants and termites in a single day.
• The fear of animals is called zoophobia.
• A woodpecker’s tongue actually wraps all the way around its brain, protecting it from damage when it’s hammering into a tree.
• The smell of a skunk is powerful enough for a human to smell it up to 3.5 miles (5.6 km) away.