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  • An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.

  • An elephant, despite is ponderous appearance, can reach speeds up to 25 miles per hours on an open stretch.

  • An extinct species of kangaroo had a head the size of a Shetland pony's and reached a height of more than ten feet.

  • An ostrich egg can make eleven and a half omelets.

  • An ostrich may weigh as much as 300 pounds. Its intestinal tract is 45 feet long.

  • An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.

  • When cows graze in their natural head down position, their saliva production increases by seventeen percent.

  • When eating, vultures often gorge themselves to the point that they can't fly. The bird will quickly regurgitate its meal to become light enough to escape if flight from an attacker is necessary. 

  • When hippos get upset, their perspiration turns red.

  • When young abalones feed on red seaweed their shells turn red.

  • Wildlife biologists estimate that as many as five out of six fawns starve to death during a hard winter in Vermont.

  • With few exceptions, birds do not sing while on the ground. They sing during flight or while sitting on an object off the ground.

  • Wolf packs could be found in all the forests of Europe, and in 1420 and 1438 wolves roamed the streets of Paris.

  • A cow weighs about 1,400 pounds and eats about 55 pounds of food per day.

  • A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.

  • A crocodile weighing 120 pounds exerts a force of about 1,540 pounds between its jaws. A human being's jaws exert a force of only 40 to 80 pounds.

  • An ox is a castrated bull. A mule is a sterile cross between a male ass and a female horse.

  • The female condor lays a single egg once every two years.

  •  At the Phoenix Zoo, zookeepers freeze assorted fruits, vegetables, fish, and seeds in big chunks of ice. These ice treats are tossed daily into the watering holes of the animals' cages and living arenas. Animal experts maintain that not only do these Ice treats help keep the animals cool during Arizona's 116-plus degree summer weather, but rouse the animals into retrieving the ice chunks from the pools, simulating behavior in the wild. 

  • The female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and completely rebuild it in order to win the affections of the female.

  • A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.

  • A male baboon can kill a leopard.

  • A marine catfish can taste wit any part of its body. The female marine catfish hatches her eggs in her mouth.

  • A mated pair of rats can produce up to 15,000 babies in one year.

  • A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in one night.

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