A Goldfish's attention
span is three seconds
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Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
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Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
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Slugs
have 4 noses
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Camels
have 3 eyelids
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A
honey bee can fly at 15mph
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A
queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
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A
bee has 5 eyes
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The
average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph
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Mosquitoes
are attracted to people who just ate bananas
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Flamingos
are pink because they eat shrimp
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Emus
and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
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Cats
have over 100 vocal chords
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Camel's
milk does not curdle
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All
porcupines float in water
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The
world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
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A
hummingbird weighs less then a penny
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A
jellyfish is 95% water
- Fish have eyelids
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There
is one million ants to every human in the world
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Termites
eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
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If
you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
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Elephants
only sleep 2 hours a day
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A
duck's quack doesn't echo
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A
snail breathes through its foot
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Fish
cough.
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An
ant's smell is stronger then a dog's
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It
is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
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Shrimp
can only swim backward
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Frogs
cannot swallow with their eyes open
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A
cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways
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A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes long.
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A cockroach can live up to nine days without it's head before it starves
to death.
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The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to
its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
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The flea can jump up to 350 times its body length. For a human, that
would be equivalent to jumping the length of a entire football field.
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The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
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Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
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Butterflies can taste with their feet.
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Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
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A cat's urine glows under a black light.
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An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
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Starfish have no brains.
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Polar bears are left-handed.
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Fifteen people
can eat out of an ostrich egg.
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Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
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The average bed is home to over 6 billion dust mites.
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Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.
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The cockroach has a high resistance to radiation and is the creature
most likely to survive a nuclear war.
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40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites
every
minute.
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The average housefly lives for one month.
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Most of us have eaten a
spider in our sleep
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The REAL reason
ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
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The only 2 animals that
can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the
parrot.
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A shark is the only fish
that can blink with both eyes.
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There are more chickens
than people in the world.
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A cat has 32 muscles in
each ear.
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Tigers have striped
skin, not just striped fur.
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The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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Pigs get
sunburn
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About 18%
of Animal owners share their bed with their pet
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August
has the highest percent of births
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Oysters
can change genders back and forth
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Fish can
drown
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A
Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
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Lizards
communicate by doing push-ups
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Squids
can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs
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A turkey
can run at 20mph
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Frogs
never drink
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Only
male turkeys gobble
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At birth,
a Dalmation is always pure white
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Rabbits and Guinea pigs cant sweat
- The pet food company Ralston Purina
recently introduced, from its subsidiary Purina Philippines, power
chicken feed designed to help roosters build muscles for cockfighting,
which is popular in many areas of the world.
- According to the Wall Street Journal,
the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million
roosters used for exactly that.
- Sharks and rays are the only animals
known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has
something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but
cartilage.
- Skunks can accurately spray their
smelly fluid as far as ten feet.
- Deer can't eat hay.
- Gopher snakes in Arizona are not
poisonous, but when frightened they may hiss and shake their tails
like rattlesnakes.
- The lifespan of a squirrel is about
nine years.
- North American oysters do not make
pearls of any value.
- Human birth control pills work on
gorillas.
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Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to
live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents.
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Gorillas sleep as much
as fourteen hours per day.
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A biological reserve
has been made for golden toads because they are so rare.
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There are more than
fifty different kinds of kangaroos.
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Jellyfish like salt
water. A rainy season often reduces the jellyfish population by putting
more fresh water into normally salty waters where they live.
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The female lion does
ninety percent of the hunting.
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A group of twelve or
more cows is called a flink.
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Cats often rub up
against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their
territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it,
because they have scent glands in their faces.
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Cats sleep up to
eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they
fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if
their
environment is still safe.
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You can tell the sex
of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.
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At Disneyland they
have hundreds of wild domesticated cats running around the park. They
never come out during the day because there's too many people, but the
reason they're there is to catch the mice.
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The giant Pacific
octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
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The giant tortoise can
live longer in captivity than any other animal.
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The Pekingese is the
royal dog of China.
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Snakes don’t bite in
rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
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The Kiwi, national
bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is
almost blind and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has
survived for more than 10 thousand years.
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In regions of India
where the soil is red - elephants take on a permanent pink tinge because
they regularly spray dust over their bodies to protect themselves
against insects.
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It takes seven years
for a lobster to grow 1 pound.
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A crocodile really
does produce tears, but they're not due to sadness. The tears are
glandular secretions that work to expel excess salt from the eyes.
Hence, "crocodile tears" are false tears.
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Sharks never stop
moving, even when they sleep or rest.
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The first known
contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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When reflected from
bright lights (head lights) deer's eyes are orange, whereas cats and
dogs are green. Rabbits eyes remain black.
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The average elephant
produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
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If you feed a seagull
Alka-Seltzer, its stomach will explode.
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Pigs can become
alcoholics.
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Penguins can jump as
high as 6 feet in the air.
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A bomb dropped by the
Allies on Berlin during World War II killed every animal in the Berlin
Zoo except the elephant, which escaped and roamed the city. When a
Russian commander saw hungry Germans chasing the elephant and trying to
kill it, he ordered his troops to protect it and shoot anyone who tried
to kill it.
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Armadillos are the
only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
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To escape the grip of
a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs-it will let you
go instantly.
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The bones of a pigeon
weigh less than its feathers.
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The ostrich egg yolk
is the biggest single cell in the world.
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Male monkeys lose the
hair on their heads in the same way men do.
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The oldest know breed
of domesticated dog is the saluki. Carvings of animals resembling the
saluki have been found in excavations of the Sumerian Empire believed to
date from between 6000 and 7000 B.C.
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The bite of a leech is
painless due to its own anesthetic.
