A wild animal is an animal that is, well, wild. This means that it isn’t tame and it lives on its own without any help from people. A wild animal finds its own food, shelter, water and all its other needs in a specific natural habitat. Habitat can be a field, woods, pond, wetland, prairie, park, or your yard. Wild animals make their home in both the city and the country. Wildlife includes small critters that you can only see through a microscope to animals as large as whales.

1. Leopards are the strongest of the big cats pound for pound.
2. A giraffe’s tongue can be as long as 50 centimetres (20 inches) and is blue-black in colour to prevent it getting sunburnt.
3. Elephants have the largest ears of any animal in the world. All the better to hear you with? Not quite. They radiate huge amounts of heat from the network of blood vessels in their ears to keep the giant mammals cool.
4. Impala are champions of the high jump – being able to clear 3 meters in height as well as leap about 10 meters forward!