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  • If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young.

  • Birds do not sing because they are happy. It is a territorial behavior.

  • Birds don't fly by flapping their wings up and down. The motion is more forward and backward, like a figure eight on its side.

  • Birds played a role in aerial warfare during World War I. Because of their acute hearing, parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower to warn of approaching aircraft long before the planes were heard or seen by human spotters.

  • By age 6 months, the voracious pig will have increased its 3-pound birth weight by 7,000 percent. 

  • The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If no other pigeon is available, her own reflection in a mirror will suffice.

  • The female salamander inseminates herself. At mating time, the male deposits a conical mass of jellylike substance containing the sperm. The female draws the jelly into herself, and in so doing fertilizes her eggs.

  • In Alaska, it is legal to shoot bears, however, waking a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph is prohibited.

  • Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same manner men do.

  • Because baby pigs grow so quickly, a succession of 48 little pigs were used in the title role during the filming of the 1995 movie hit "Babe." 

  • Because its tongue is too short for its beak, the toucan must juggle its food before swallowing it. 

  • Because of the giant panda's large size and the small size of their offspring, it is difficult to tell when a panda is pregnant. 

  • Between the mid-1860's and 1883, the bison population in North America was reduced from an estimated 13 million to a few hundred.

  • Bird droppings are chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.

  • The first medical use of leeches dates back to approximately 2,500 years ago. Leeches saliva contains a property that acts as an anticoagulant for human blood.

  • In one year, hens in America lay enough eggs to encircle the globe a hundred times.

  • The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.

  • The frigate bird can fly at a speed of 260 miles per hour.

  • A crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If you are unlucky enough to be pursued by a crocodile, you should run in a zigzag motion, because the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.

  • Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in a dim light or they are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream. The remain gold when kept in a pond or in a bowl with adequate illumination.

  • The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.

  • Greyhounds have the best eyesight of any breed of dog.

  • The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking!

  • The duckbill platypus of Australia can store up to 600 worms in its large cheek pouches. 

  • Garter snakes, though reptiles, do not lay eggs. They bear young, just as mammals do.

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