💡 Động vật đồng cỏ — Fun Facts

The cheetah can speed up as quickly as a race car.

In just a few seconds, a cheetah goes from standing still to zooming across the grassland.

The African elephant is the biggest animal that lives on land.

It is taller than a grown-up and heavier than a big truck, yet it eats only plants.

A rhino's horn is made of the same stuff as your hair and nails.

The horn isn't bone at all. It is made of keratin, just like your fingernails.

An elephant flaps its big ears to help stay cool.

The large ears let heat out of its body, working a bit like fans on a hot day.

A hippo spends most of the day cooling off in the water.

Hippos stay in rivers to keep out of the hot sun, with just their eyes and ears poking out.

Every zebra has its very own pattern of stripes.

Just like fingerprints, no two zebras have exactly the same stripes.

A lion's roar can be heard from far across the grasslands.

The mighty roar tells other lions "this is my home." It can carry for kilometers.

The giraffe is the tallest animal on land.

A grown giraffe can be 5–6 metres tall. Its neck alone is about 2 metres long, which helps it reach leaves high up in the trees.

The cheetah is the fastest runner on land.

A cheetah can sprint at about 110 km/h (70 mph), but only for short bursts of 20–30 seconds before it has to stop and rest.

A giraffe's tongue can be about 50 cm long — and it's bluish-purple.

A giraffe uses its long, grippy tongue to pull leaves from between sharp thorns. The dark bluish-purple colour is thought to work like sunscreen, protecting the tongue from sunburn while it feeds out in the sun all day.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

Elephants are simply too heavy, and their legs are built to support enormous weight rather than to spring off the ground. They always keep at least one foot down — but they can still run quickly and are surprisingly good swimmers.