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- A house cat has 18 claws.
- A castrated rooster is called a capon.
- A skark's skeleton is made up of cartilage.
- The only venomous British snake is the adder.
- To see at night as well as an owl, you would need eyeballs as big as a grapefruit.
- The venom of the king cobra is so deadly that one gram of it can kill 150 people. Just to handle the substance can put one in a coma.
- Cats purr at 26 cycles per second, the same as an idling diesel engine.
- The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to sleep.
- While many people believe that a camel's humps are used for water storage, they are actually made up of fat. The hump of a well-rested, well-fed camel can weigh up to eighty pounds.
- Birds do not have sweat glands, so their bodies cannot cool down through perspiration. Their bodies cool by flight or, when at rest, panting.
- Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
- Males lions can sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
- The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest animal which can be heard clearly for distances of up to 3 miles.
- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 2.5 miles away.
- The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.
- The only place in Europe where monkeys live free is Gibraltar.
- Beavers do not eat fish.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- Penguins only have sex once a year.
- You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
- The blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- Fish can be susceptible to seasickness.
- The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. She must be able to see another pigeon in order for her ovaries to function. Her own reflection will work if no other pigeon is available.
- Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout.
- A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times an hour, but it only breathes ten times an hour while it is hibernating.
- The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.
- The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.
- A parrots beak can close with a force close to 350 pounds per square inch.
- Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks. That means one shark will go through more than 24,000 new teeth in a year.
- Apus Australiensis, a shrimp-like crustacean of arid central Australia, survives where other water animals would perish because its eggs hatch only after they have been dried out in the sun.
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