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- Proportional to their size, cats have the largest eyes of all mammals
- Sailfish can leap out of the water and into the air at a speed of 50 miles per hour.
- The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animals having the most taste buds
- A skunks smell can be detected by a human a mile away
- A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
- The Emperor Penguin is the largest type of Penguin.
- Honey bees have a type of hair on their eyes
- To reach rivers and lakes where they spend most of their lives, many newborn eels swim for up to 3,000 miles nonstop
- A male rabbit is called a 'buck' and a female rabbit is called a 'doe'
- It's
against the law to have a pet in Iceland
- In 1681,
the last dodo bird died
- You can
only smell one-twentieth as well as a dog
- The snail
mates only once in it's entire life
- The waste
produced by one chicken in its lifetime can supply enough
electricity to run a 100-watt bulb for 5 hours
- Scorpions
can withstand 200 times more nuclear radiation than
humans can
- The average
garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head
- It is
possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs
- A kangaroo
can't jump unless it's tail is touching the ground
- Dolphins
don't automatically breath; they have to tell themselves
to
- Cats sleep
16 to 18 hours per day
- A flamingo can eat only when its head is upside down.
- Male bees
will try to attract sex partners with orchid fragrance
- A turtle's
shell is nothing more than its ribs and spine fused
together over many years of evolution
- 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
- The muzzle
of a lion is like a fingerprint no two lions have the
same pattern of whiskers
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