Animal Facts
A dynamic daily playlist of Amazing Animal Facts!
Learn something new about the animal kingdom every day!
Hosted by Alice, wannabe future Zoologist
Age 7, from South Wales.
🔍 Find the full version of Animal Facts in the Yoto Club Collection on your Yoto App (in the Discover Tab) – Over 100 facts, with new facts added regularly!
📖 Usage
Full Version
Find the card in the Discover tab of your Yoto app, in the Yoto Club Collection.
Then you can either play it through the Yoto app, or link it to a Make Your Own Yoto card so that you (or someone you know!) can listen to it on their Yoto Player.
To link Animal Facts to a MYO card, you need to use the Yoto app and click 'link to a card' – see the image below.
Free Version
Add the card to your Yoto library via this link.
You can then play it or link it to a card in the same way as shown above for the full version.
📢 Send Facts and Feedback
If you have any suggestions for new animal facts, please drop us an email!
If you include your fact, first name, age and where you're from, we'll make sure to read this out when we get to your fact in the future.
If you have any other feedback – feel free to email us, or fire a message to us on BlueSky, X (Twitter), or LinkedIn!
We'd also love it if you could share it with any other parents or children that you know!
🙏 Thanks
- My daughters Alice and Izzy for their amazing animal facts! I primarily made this card as a fun project to create with them, and they helped a lot with finding really interesting facts!
- Molly Nye, who illustrated the amazing Animal Facts card cover!
- I used a mix of Yoto's official icons and some custom ones from the awesome Yoto Icons.
❓ FAQs
Why is there a free and full version of Animal Facts?
To host a dynamic application like Animal Facts comes with ongoing costs (as it's hosted by us and not Yoto).
Making the full card available as part of the Yoto club collection helps us to cover these costs and look to improve the card even more in the future.
We're experimenting to get the balance right in terms of the content across the free and full versions – any feedback is really appreciated!
Is the content created by a human, or by AI?
All the content and facts have been written by humans (myself and my daughters Alice and Izzy!).
The narration is done by my daughter Alice. She's 7 and is a massive animal enthusiast!
Do you collect any user details?
No. The only data that is used by the card is your location (which is worked out via your IP address) and your timezone to personalise the content to you. The intro/outro audio will change based on your time of day and month, and location is mentioned occasionally in the audio too.
This data isn't stored anywhere - it is just used when working out which tracks to play you.
💻 Technical Details
- The application was coded using JavaScript/NodeJS.
- For the architecture itself, I use Netlify Edge functions for the audio requests. Depending on which track you're on, this dynamically works out which audio file to serve to you and which icon to display. So if it's morning, you'll hear slightly different audio to in the evening, and if you're based in the UK, you'll get slightly different audio to someone listening in the US.
- The majority of the audio and icons are stored and served from a Cloudflare R2 bucket. The edge functions work out which audio file to send to each user and then stream it directly from this bucket. This also means I can make use of Cloudflare's CDN for these files.