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The Kiwi
produces the biggest egg for its body size among Birds
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Insects
outnumber humans 100,000,000 to one
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Shark skin has
tiny tooth-like scales all over
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Chameleons
(small lizards) can move their eyes in two directions at the same
time.
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Koalas never
drink water. They get fluids from the eucalyptus leaves they eat
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Lacking a
collar-bone, the deer mouse can flatten it's body so much it can squeeze
into an opening one quarter of an inch high.
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A cow gives
nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime
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Individual Orcas
can be identified by their dorsal fins and saddle patches. These
characteristics are unique for each orca just as human
fingerprints are all different. Vocalization characteristics are
also unique for each individual
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The orca is the
largest member of the dolphin family, and is not really a whale.
Due to its size, however, the orca is frequently included in
discussions of whales.
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In the wild, Orcas
are thought to live to seventy or eighty years of age. There is
some evidence that females live longer than males, and the average
life expectancy of male Orcas is around forty to fifty years.
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Orcas reach
sexual maturity around the same age as humans
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Flamingos feed
with their hook-shaped bill by holding their head upside-down and
scooping through mud and shallow water; ridges on their bill act
to filter debris
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Some owls have
fringes on their primary feathers to enable silent flight. But
this isn't so its prey won't hear the owl, but so that the owl can
hear its prey!
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When sharks take
a bite, their eyes roll back and their teeth jut out.
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A pachyderm is
not just an elephant. The word means 'thick skin'. Other
pachyderms include the rhinoceros and the hippo
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Vegetarian
mammals produce more methane (they fart more) than carnivorous
mammals
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Male Raccoons
are the only mammals with an actual bone in their penis
