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Animals infographics

These infographics cover wild animals, pets and farm animals, including how they see, sleep, run and how long they live, plus practical guides for dog owners and chicken keepers. Each page credits the artist, writes out every species on the graphic and checks the claims against published research. Popular pages include the 16 Myers-Briggs types as animals, animal colour vision, cheetah speed and anatomy, average daily sleep for 40 species and the lifespan of animals from mayfly to jellyfish. Wildlife decline and the animals most dangerous to people are covered too.

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What this collection covers

The 15 infographics here fall into a few groups. Several deal with how animal bodies work, including colour vision, cetacean eye colour, cheetah anatomy, sleep and lifespan. Others set animals against people, through athletic records and the number of people each animal kills, or track wildlife population decline by region. For pet and animal keepers there are guides to dog food safety, chicken names and keeping predators out of a coop. There is also a survey of cat and dog ownership in 22 countries, an explainer on how a honeybee colony works and a key to 17 common urban ants. One chart matches the 16 Myers-Briggs types to animals.

Where to start

For speed, Cheetah Speed and Anatomy by Jacob O'Neal gives a top speed of 64 mph and 0 to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds. It also shows lungs, liver and heart three times larger than a lion's in proportion to body size. Athletic Animals Compared With Great Human Athletes sets five world records against ordinary animals. It shows a domestic cat at 30 mph as faster than Usain Bolt at 27.8 mph, and its notes point out where the animal figures do not stand up.

Two charts cover the range of animal life. The Animals Sleeping Time Chart covers 40 species, from the brown bat at 19 hours 54 minutes a day to the giraffe at 1 hour 54 minutes. The Lifespan of Animals Chart places 37 animals on a timeline, from the mayfly at hours to a week up to the ocean quahog clam at 410 years.

On the dangers animals pose to people and the dangers wildlife faces, Human Deaths by Animals Per Year, made for GatesNotes (Bill Gates), puts mosquitoes first at 725,000 deaths a year and humans second at 475,000. Wildlife Decline by Region from Latinometrics shows that monitored wildlife populations in Latin America and the Caribbean fell by an average of 95% between 1970 and 2020, against 73% worldwide.

Questions about animals infographics

Which animal kills the most people each year?

The mosquito, at 725,000 human deaths a year, mostly through the diseases it carries, according to the chart made for GatesNotes (Bill Gates). Humans come second at 475,000, and sharks and wolves kill about 10 people a year each.

Which animal sleeps the most and which sleeps the least?

The Animals Sleeping Time Chart puts the brown bat at the top, at 19 hours 54 minutes a day. The giraffe sleeps the least, at 1 hour 54 minutes, just below the African elephant at 2 hours.

Which country has the most dog owners?

Argentina, where 66% of people own a dog, followed by Mexico at 64% and Brazil at 58%, according to a GfK survey published in 2016. In the same survey Russia leads for cats at 57%.

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