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A kangaroo
can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
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Dolphins don't
automatically breath; they have to tell themselves to
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Cats sleep 16
to 18 hours per day
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A flamingo can
eat only when its head is upside down.
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Male bees will
try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance
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A turtle's
shell is nothing more than its ribs and spine fused together over
many years of evolution
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No other
animal gives us more by-products than the pig. These by-products
include pig suede, buttons, glass, paint brushes, crayons, chalk and
insulation to name a few
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The muzzle of
a lion is like a fingerprint no two lions have the same pattern of
whiskers
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There was a
prehistoric horse breed (called eohippus) that was about the size of
a housecat
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the male
scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by imitating a
female fly
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The poison
arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
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A kangaroo can
jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 meters.
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Reindeer milk
has more fat than cow milk.
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When a Dalmatian
dog is born they are almost pure white
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A horse's hoof
is actually what used to be toes fused together though evolution
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Ribbon worms
will eat themselves if the cant find any food
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The Queen
termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day.
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Cockroaches favorite
food is the glue on the back of stamps.
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Tuna swim at a
steady rate of nine miles per hour for an indefinite period (until they
die) and they never stop moving. Some Scientists estimate that a
fifteen year old tuna must have traveled one million miles
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An adult Hippo
can bite a 12 foot adult male crocodile in half, Hippo's are the
largest member of the pig family
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There is a
type of lizard called "chuckwalla" that escapes it's
pursuers by crawling into a crack and inflating itself so that it is
wedged in and can't be pulled out
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The Australian
Emu holds the land speed record for birds (31 mph).
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Mosquitoes
live mostly on nectar and rotting plant materials.
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At full speed
a Cheetah takes strides of 8 meters
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Of the 4000
species of mammals on the planet, the are 900 different species of
bats
