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| Chocolate effects a dogs heart and nervous system, a few ounces enough to kill a small sized dog. |
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| A typical day for a gorilla is to get up early and eat. It eats until it gets hot, then it will nap. When it gets up from its nap, they resume eating until the sun goes down. |
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| When two zebras stand side by side, they usually face in opposite directions. They say this is so they can keep an eye out for predators. |
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| A kind of tortoise in the Galapagos Islands has an upturned shell at its neck so it can reach its head up to eat cactus branches. |
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| The Penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright. |
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| The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed. |
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| Snakes continue to grow until the day they die. |
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| Flamingoes live remarkably long lives: up to 80 years. |
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| The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction. |
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| Octopi and squid have three hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills. |
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| A jynx is a woodpecker, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck. |
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| Lobsters can move up to 25 feet per second underwater. |
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| A trout swims at about 4 miles per hour which is faster than you or me. |
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| Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by osmosis. |
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| All elephants walk on tip-toe, because the back portion of their foot is made up of all fat and no bone. |
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| An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes. |
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| The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. |
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| The flying snake of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree |
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| Each year, Americans spend more on cat food than on baby food. |
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| The bite of a leech is painless due to its own anesthetic. |
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| Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. |
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| The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk. |
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| The bottle-nosed whale can dive to a depth of 3,000 feet in two minutes. |
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| The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers. |
