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  • A bird sees everything at once in total focus. Whereas the human eye is globular and must adjust to varying distances, the bird's eye is flat and can take in everything at once in a single glance.

  • A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

  • A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze though. The whiskers act as feelers or antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

  • A cat's jaw can't move sideways.

  • A chicken will lay bigger and stronger eggs if you change the lighting in such a way as to make them think a day is 28 hours long.

  • A cow can't give milk until she's given birth to a calf.

  • A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

  • Vampire bats do not suck blood. They bite, then lick up the flow.

  • When a hippopotamus exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red sweatlike mucus through its skin.

  • When a snail hatches from an egg, it is a miniature adult, shell and all. The shell grows with the snail, and the snail never leaves the shell.

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