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• A Donkey is an "ass", but an ass is not always a donkey. The word "ass" refers to several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, including the Onager.

• A female mouse may spawn as many as ten litters of eight to ten young during her lifetime--which is generally less than a year. The gestation period is three weeks, and the young mice reach maturity in only ten weeks.

• A full-grown moose may be 8 feet high at the shoulder and weigh almost a ton.

• A garter snake can give birth to 85 babies.

• A giraffe can go without water linger than a camel can.

• A good milking cow will give nearly 6,000 quarts of milk every year.

• A herd of sixty cows is capable of producing a ton of milk in less than a day.

• A hippopotamus can open its mouth wide enough to accommodate a 4-foot-tall child.

• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

• A hippopotamus has a stomach 10 feet long, capable of holding 6 bushels of grass.
  

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