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Flies jump
backwards when they take off
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The red bumps on
a turkey's head are called caruncles
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Hippopotamuses
do eighty percent of their vocalization under water.
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More than
20,000,000 seahorses are harvested each year for folk medicinal
purposes. The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the
past 10 years.
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About 80 percent
of all bird species in the world inhabit wetlands. These wetlands
provide rest stops for migrating birds with water, bountiful food
supplies and shelter.
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The largest
insects that ever lived on the earth were giant dragonflies with
wing spans of over 3 feet.
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Camels chew in a
figure 8 pattern
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Cats, camels and
giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot,
right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left
foot
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Proportional to
their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals
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Sailfish can
leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles per
hour.
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The catfish has
over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals
having the most taste buds
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A skunks smell
can be detected by a human a mile away
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A lion in the
wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
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The Emperor
Penguin is the largest type of Penguin.
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Honey bees have a
type of hair on their eyes
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To reach rivers
and lakes where they spend most of their lives, many newborn eels
swim for up to 3,000 miles nonstop
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A male rabbit is
called a 'buck' and a female rabbit is called a 'doe'
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It's against
the law to have a pet in Iceland
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In 1681, the
last dodo bird died
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You can only
smell one-twentieth as well as a dog
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The snail
mates only once in it's entire life
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The waste
produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough
electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours
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Scorpions can
withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than humans can
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The average
garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head
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It is possible
to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs
