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- There was a
prehistoric horse breed (called eohippus) that was about
the size of a housecat
- the male
scorpion fly gets other males to bring him food by
imitating a female fly
- The poison
arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people
- A kangaroo
can jump up to 3 meters high and leap up to 8 metres.
- Reindeer
milk has more fat than cow milk.
- When a Dalmation dog is born they are almost pure white
- A horse's hoof is actually what used to be toes fused together though evolution
- Ribbon worms will eat themselves if the cant find any food
- The Queen
termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children
every day.
- Cockroaches
favourite food is the glue on the back of stamps.
- Tuna swim at a steady rate of nine miles per hour for an indefinate period (until thay die) and they never stop moving. Some Scientists estimate that a fifteen year old tuna must have travelled one million miles
- An adult Hippo can bite a 12 foot adult male crocodile in half, Hippo's are the largest member of the pig family
- There is a type of lizard called "chuckwalla" that escapes it's pursuers by crawling into a crack and inflating itself so that it is wedged in and can't be pulled out
- The
Australian Emu holds the land speed record for birds (31
mph).
- Mosquitoes
live mostly on nectar and rotting plant materials.
At
full speed a Cheetah takes strides of 8 metres
Of the 4000 species of mammals on the planet, the are 900 different species of bats |
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