• Giant anteater
  The South American giant anteater has a 60 cm (24 in) long tongue ...

• No drink
  Koalas will only eat the leaves of five out of the 350 kinds of ...

• Regular meals
  Because they are warm-blooded, mammals can be very active in both hot ...

• Liquid diet
  Vampire bats live on a diet of animal blood. They hunt at night and ...

• Excuse fingers
  The aye-aye, a rare lemur in Madagascar, has long, thin middle ...

• Giant hunger
  In spring and summer, a blue whale eats as much as four tonnes of ...

• High table
  A giraffe's long neck allows it to reach its favourite food of leaves ...

• DID YOU KNOW?
  Elephants eat up to 1/2 tonne of plant food a day. They have 24 teeth ...

• Grand old age
  The mammal which lives the longest, after man, is the Asian elephant. ...

• Sea life
  Baird's beaked whale is the longest-living sea mammal known. It can ...