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  • Thinking that its parents were a Camel and a Leopard, the Europeans once called the animal a "Camelopard". Today it is called the Giraffe.

  • Thirty thousand monkeys were used in the massive three-year effort to classify the various types of polio.

  • Tiger cubs are born blind and weigh only about 2 to 3 pounds (1 kg), depending on the subspecies. They live on milk for 6-8 weeks before the female begins taking them to kills to feed. Tigers have fully developed canines by 16 months of age, but they do not begin making their own kills until about 18 months of age.

  • To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than four years. 

  • To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weight in food each day.

  • Two rats can become the progenitors of 15,000 rats in less than a year.

  • Unrelated to the chicken, the male cock-of-the-rock bird earned the name "cock" because of its rooster-like appearance and combative behavior. The female of the species influenced the word "rock" being added to the name because of her habit of nesting and rearing the young in sheltered rock niches. 

  • A "Winkle" is an edible sea snail.

  • A 4 inch long abalone can grip a rock with a force of 400 pounds. Two grown men are incapable of prying it up.

  • A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than 2,000 bottles a day.

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