PAGE TWO: Amazing Animal Facts
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- Animal Facts
- Unusual GroupNames
- A Few Plant Facts
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Animal Facts
- Wild dogs don't bark or wag their tails.
- Giraffes can't swim.
- Bats are the only mammals that fly.
- Cheetahs are the easiest of the big cats to tame, but hard to catch. They can go from a standing position to 45 miles per hour in 2 seconds.
- Wild turkeys CAN fly but don't migrate.
- A Giraffe can kill a lion with one kick.
- Armadillos have 4 babies at a time, all the same sex.
- Cats have 6 blood types, dogs 5, people 4.
- Elephants are the only animals with 4 knees,
- Catgut is really Sheep intestine.
- All polar bears are left-handed.
- Koala means "no drink" and they don't. They get their water from the eucalyptus leaves they eat.
- Grizzly means grey, but most grizzly bears are yellowish brown.
- Male giraffes are the tallest animals. Some grow to 18 feet.
- Like white men, Elephants can't jump.
- Ostriches don't bury their heads in the sand. They lay heir heads on the ground to rest those long necks.
- Giraffe comes form giraffa camelopardalis- Camel leopard.
- The lollipop was named for a famous race horse.
- Elephants are not afriad of mice, but they show fear at the sight of rabbits and small dogs.(dachshunds especially.)
- It is possible to tell the temperature in degrees fahrenheit by counting the number of times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds, then adding 40 to that number.
- Eagles mate in the air.
- Swans live up to 70 years.
- Humans have the longest life span of any mammals.
- Bears can get cavities from honey.
- An armadillo crosses a river by holding it's breath and walking across the bottom.
- A killer whale, or orca, is really a kind of porpoise.(dolphin)
- The horn of a big horn sheep can way up to 30 pounds.
- Some types of rabbits can climb trees.
- Cats can't chew their food, they just cut into it and swallow.
- Rams and ewes only mate at night.
- A honeybee has two stomaches- one for honey, one for food.
- An American porcupine has orange teeth.
- Newborn fawns have no scent so ememies can't detect them easily.
- Garlic is a natural insect repellant.(It's a people repellant)
- The Giant squid has the largest eyes of any animal.
- 76 people have been killed by elephants since 1976.
- The heaviest pile of elephant "droppings" recorded weighed 300 hundred pounds.( Now, THAT'S a big pile of...)
Unusual Group Names
It'S A...
- gaggle or skein of geese.
- mob of kangaroos.
- slueth of bears.
- team of ducks.(a hockey team perhaps?)
- drove of pigs.(I drove my drove of pigs to the market.)
- skulk of foxes.
- pod of whales.
- parliment of owls.
- warren of rabbits.
- and a murder of crows.
A Few Plant Facts
- The ginko tree which lines streets in Europe and the US dates back to the triassic period- When dinosaurs were around.
- Bamboo has been known to grow four feet in 24 hours,and...
- If Bamboo blossoms it's dying.
- The oldest living thing on eath is a pine tree in Northern California named Methuseluh. It's recorded age is 4,600 years old.
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