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  • A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is lifted off the ground. It needs its tail for pushing off.

  • A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 13 feet long. A bite from a King Cobra can kill an elephant in 4 hours.

  • A Holstein cow's spots are like a fingerprint or a snowflake, no two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.

  • A horse can sleep standing up.

  • A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do.

  • Zebras, like other equids, have three gaits: the walk, the trot, and the gallop. 

  • Elephant herds post their own sentries. When danger threatens, the sentry raises its trunk and though it may be as far as a half-mile away, the rest of the herd is instantly alerted. how this communication takes place is not understood.

  • Elephants are covered with hair. Although it is not apparent from a distance, at close range one can discern a thin coat of light hairs covering practically every part of an elephant's body.

  • Elephants, lions and camels roamed Alaska 12,000 years ago.

  • Eucalyptus leaves are the only food koala bears will eat.

  • Every 9.6 years there is a peak in Canada wildlife population, especially among the muskrats, red fox, skunks, mink, lynx, and rabbits. The population of grasshoppers of the world tends to rise and fall rhythmically in 9.2-year cycles.

  • Every hour, nearly 12,500 puppies are born in the United States.

  • February 18th, 1930 marks the first flight by a cow in an airplane. Elm Farm Ollie, while watched by reporters, produced milk that was put into containers and parachuted over St. Louis, Mo. Can you spell "publicity stunt"?

  • A tiger's paw prints are called pug marks. A tiger's forefeet have five toes and the hind feet have four toes. All toes have claws. The claws are 80 to 100 mm in length.

  • A tuna fish can swim 100 miles in a single day.

  • A type of lizard, the chuckwalla, escapes pursuers by crawling into a crack in a rock and inflating its body with air so that it is wedged tightly into the crack and can't be pulled out.

  • The Great Horned Owl can turn its head 270 degrees.

  • Zebus are humped cattle found in India, China and northern Africa. Zebubs are tsetse-like flies found in Ethiopia.

  • It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound

  • The grizzly bear is capable of running as fast as the average horse.

  • It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to tip the scale at 1 ounce. 

  • The hippopotamus gives birth underwater and nurses its young in the river as well, although the young hippos do come up periodically for air.

  • Kangaroo rats never drink water. Like their relatives the pocket mice, they carry their own water source within them, producing fluids from the food they eat and the air they breathe.

  • The hippopotamus has skin an inch and a half thick, so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.

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