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=ANIMAL FACTS = = = A mouses heart beats 300 times a minute. A horses heart beats 68 times a minute. A baby Koala eats its parents poop. Mice are allergic to cheese. Elephants are not afraid of mice. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation! A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth! A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein! A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average! A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside! A hummingbird weighs less than a penny! A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night! A snail can sleep for three years. After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again! All polar bears are left handed. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Bulls are colour blind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow! Butterflies taste with their feet. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand! Cat urine glows under a black-light! Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, but dogs only have about ten. Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?! Elephants are the only animals that can't jump. Most lipstick contains fish scales! Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints! On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows! Porcupines float in water! The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds! The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'! The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times! ! The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur! The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows! The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1! You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. Koalas and primates are the only animals with unique fingerprints The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip has a name. Penguins can jump 6 feet in the air. A group of Kangaroos is called a mob. A young Kangaroo is called a Joey. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards. Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water. The smallest bird in the world is the Humming Bird. It weighs less than 1 oz (or 1g). A bear can run at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour (48 km/h). Elephants are the only animal that can't jump. Polar bears are left handed. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. Tigers have striped skin not just striped fur. Reindeer eat moss because it contains a chemical that stops their body from freezing. The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) means 'barking dog'. Snakes can see through their eyelids. A Woodpecker can peck 20 times per second. Woodpeckers don't get headaches from all that pecking. Their skulls have air pockets to cushion the brain. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head 360 degrees. Butterflies tast sensors are in their feet. They taste their food by standing on it. Katydids have ears in their front legs. The strongest animal in the world is the rhinoceros beetle. It can lift 850 times its own weight. Flamingos are pink because shrimp is one of their main sources of food. The flying frog uses flaps of skin between its toes to glide. The slowest mammal on earth is the tree sloth. It only moves at a speed of 6 feet (1.83 meters) per minute. The Chameleon's tongue is as long as its body. The Chameleon can focus its eyes seperately to watch two objects at once. The Kangaroo's ancestors lived in trees. Today there are eight different kinds of tree kangaroos. Flamingos eat with their heads upside down to strain the water out of their food. Many snakes never stop growing. That's one reason they must shed their skin. The Artic Tern flies from the North Pole to the South Pole and then back again to spend summer in each place. The black bulldog ant from Australia is the most dangerous ant in the world. It stings and bites at the same time and has killed humans. A hippopotamus can stay under water for up to 30 minutes. The Basenji is the only dog which does not bark. Armadillos, opossums and sloths spend up to 80 percent of their lives sleeping.