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Some Animal Facts
# You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000 000 000 000 071 ounce of its spray.
# Sea Otters use so much energy that they need to eat as much as one-third of their weight each day.
# It takes around 10 dump-truck loads of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant.
# According to a survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 53 percent of pet owners vacation or travel with their pets.
# Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
# The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
# A hippo can run faster than man.
# A Panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
# Polar bears can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.
# Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
# About 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Most eat insects but also on the menu are frogs, birds and even small monkeys.
# If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
# All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone.
# A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
# Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
# Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
# Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
# The Honey Badger can withstand hundreds of African bee stings that would kill any other animal.
# Giraffes have no vocal cords.
# The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
# During World War II, Americans tried to train bats to drop bombs.
# The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
# When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
# A full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
# Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
# In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
# No two zebras have the same markings.
# Hippos have killed more than 400 people in Africa - more than any other wild animal.
# A baby elephant calf can weigh up to 260 pounds when it is born.
# Pandas in China have been given Viagra to help them mate.
# Polar bears are the only mammal with hair on the soles of its feet.
# We share 98.4% of our DNA with a chimp - and 70% with a slug.
# The wingspan of the Indonesian fruitbat equals the height of filmstar Sylvester Stallone.
# According to one study, plant and animal species are becoming extinct at the rate of 17 per hour.
# It takes 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of American Footballs.
# Bats always turn left when leaving a cave.
# Polar Bears cannot be detected by infrared cameras, due to their transparent fur.
# An elephant herd can move fifty miles in a day.
# As a general rule in the animal kingdom, the more complex or relatively big the eye in relation to the body, then the smaller the rest of the brain.
# Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
# A newborn giant panda is only the size of a stick of butter.
# When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
# Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
# There are an estimated five million, trillion, trillion bacteria on Earth.
# The remains of diatoms, algae with hard shells, are used in making pet litter, cosmetics, pool filters and tooth polish.
# Camel milk does not curdle.
# Animal gestation periods: the shortest is the American opossum, which bears its young 12 to 13 days after conception; the longest is the Asiatic elephant, taking 608 days, or just over 20 months.
# The oceans contain 99 percent of the living space on the planet..
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Antipodi
May one day man and Animals live together in harmony and peace
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