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.