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Giraffes can't cough.

 

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Elephants can smell water from as far away as three miles.

 

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The Japanese quail has many values to the people who live in the areas it habitates. They are used for their song, their eggs, their uses as fighting cocks, for their meat, and are carried around in cold weather in South china to keep one's hands warm.

 

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All shrimp are born male, but slowly grow into females as they mature.

 

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The stomach acids in a snake's stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.

 

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The March Hare from Alice In Wonderland portrays the actual antics of real hares during springtime, when they jump around and hit their large hind feet on the ground.

 

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Some species of dinosaur were the size of chickens.

 

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Birds cannot go into outer space, because they use gravity to assist them in swallowing, so they'd quickly choke and die in a non-gravity environment.

 

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The Metro Goldwyn Mayer lion lived in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

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Humans have three color receptors in their eyes, while goldfish have four, and mantis shrimp have ten.

 

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Studies have shown that pigs are one of the more intelligent animals, surprisingly. They come a close second only to primates. They are so smart, in fact, that they can be trained to do tricks like a dog.

 

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Birds do not sleep in their nests, although they may rest in them from time to time.

 

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The average giraffe has a blood pressure two or three times that of the average human.

 

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Some birds from the rain forests of South America actually breed in Canada in the summer, before returning south for the winter.

 

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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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More types of fish live in one Amazon River tributary than in all the rivers in North America combined.

 

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Penguins generally mate once and produce one egg per year.

 

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The mako shark and great white shark are two of the few species of shark that are warm blooded.

 

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You can house break an armadillo.

 

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Cows are the only mammals that pee backwards.

 

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Greyhound dogs can see better than any other breed of dog.

 

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The opossum is a North American mammal about the size of a cat. It looks much like an over sized rat. In fact, one type of opossum is actually called the rat opossum. What's most interesting about opossums is how it reacts to predators: if it can't escape and hissing and showing its teeth do not scare off the predator, they pretend to die. The thing is, it's not doing this because it wants to; it can't really control it. Its muscles tighten up in fear and it faints.

 

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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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St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.

 

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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

 

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Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.

 

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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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The oyster is usually ambisexual. Through its life it will change from male to female and back again numerous times.