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-An average dairy cow produces four times its body weight in manure each year. -Kiwis are the only bird that hunts by smell. -A birds eye keeps everything in focus at all times. -Elvis had a pet monkey named Scatter. -A sheep trained to turn the lights on and off will leave them them on 82% of the time. -A blind chameleon will still change color to match its surroundings. -All dogs except the Chow have a pink tongue, the Chow's tongue is bluish black. -Nine out of ten extinct species were birds. -Lions sleep 17 hours per day. -Most wild birds live only 10% of their normal life span. -Mouse sex only lasts five seconds. -Florida officals recieve 8,000 complaints each year about alligators. -Pigeons have three sets of eyelids. -Male monkeys go bald just as men do. -Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails. -About one third of all species of snakes are venomous. -The stomach of a hippo can be up to 10 feet long and hold up to 400 pounds of food. -An Elephant's tusks never stop growing as long as it lives. -If left alone, a dog will spend up to 3 hours a day remarking its scent posts. -The horseshoe crab has sky-blue blood. -A snapping turtle can only swollow when its head is under water. -When given unlimited access to mice, cats will kill about 15 before stopping. -Lobsters and jellyfish never stop growing. -The seahorse is the only fish that swims upright. -Cat milk is 10% protein where cow milk is only 3%. -Crocodiles can't move their tongues. -The pouch on a pelican's beak can hold up to 2 gallons of water. -A homing pigeon will not be able to find its way home if a magnet it attached to their neck. -The speckles on a bird's egg are as individual as a fingerprint. -The upstroke of a bird's wing moves it forward, the downstroke only keeps it airborn. -A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel. -A freshly hatched crocodile is three times longer than the egg it came from. -Polar bears are left-handed. -Elephants are not afraid of mice. |
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-A snail can sleep for three years. -Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows. -All polar bears are left handed. -The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1. -You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. -A blue whales testicles are the size of a family car. -Robins eat three miles of earth worms in a year. -An oyster changes sex several times during its life. -Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do. -Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cannot find food. |
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-Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions. -Skunks can accurately spray their fluid up to ten feet. -A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink. -Sheep can survive up to two weeks buried in show drifts. -A slug has four noses. -A turtle can breath through its butt. -An ant can detect movement through five centimeters of earth. -A hippo can open it's mouth wide enouth to fit a four foot child inside. -Bats always exit a cave to the left. -A crocodile can't move it's tongue. |
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-When mating, a hummingbird's wings beat 200 times a second. -Two dogs were hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. -Jackrabbits got their name because their ears look like a donkey's (Jackass). -Rabbits and horses cannot vomit. -If birds could sweat they wouldn't be able to fly. -Sloths sneeze slowly. They also give birth upside down.... slowly. -Goldfish have a memory span of 3 seconds. -A whales heart beats about once every 6 and a half seconds. -The average American Bald Eagle weighs about 9 pounds. -A chicken's top speed is 9 mph. -A bat can eat up to 1,000 insects per hour. -Argentina's falabella horses are only 16 inches tall fully grown and are the smallest horses on Earth. -The giraffe has the highest blood pressure of any animal. -Lobsters like to eat lobster. -To maintain a chimpanzee in captivity for 60 years it would cost an estimated $300,000. -Crocodiles can't move their tongues. -Wolves could bark like dogs, they don't because they don't want to. -An adult crocodile can go two years without eating. -A roadrunner purrs when it is content. -A cow has four stomachs. -The decapitated jaws of a snapping turtle can keep snapping for about a day. -Toto the dog was paid $125 a week for his work in The Wizzard of Oz. -The average cow produces about 70,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. -A study has concluded that if a woodchuck could chuck wood it could chuck about 700 pounds. -A mother shark can give birth to as many as 70 baby sharks per litter. -Both gorillaz and housecats purr. -A hibernating bear can go as long as 6 months without a bathroom break. -The only time a turkey whistles is when it is panicking. -Whales and Buffalos both stampede. -The top speed of a pigeon in flight is 90 mph. -Squirrels cannot see the color red. -Chimpanzees will hunt ducks if given the opportunity. -Sheep snore. -A group of jellyfish is called a "smack." -One humped camels run faster than two humped camels. -Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel hair. -Emus cannot walk backwards. -Camel's milk does not curdle. -Armadillos can catch malaria. -The last animal in the dictionary is the zyzzyva, a tropical American weevil. -Black sheep have a better sense of smell then white sheep. -The English Sparrow is not a sparrow and it comes from Africa, not England. -Baboons cannot throw overhand. -Lions are the only cats that live in packs. -To get a gallon of milk, it takes about 345 squirts from a cow's utter. -A warthog has only 4 warts, all of which are on its head. -The penalty for stealing a rabbit in 19th-century england was seven years in prison. -Even bloodhounds cannot smell the difference between two identical twins. -Cows and cats both get hairballs. -Camels are born without humps. -Anteaters can flick their tongues 160 times a minute. |
