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Giraffes have no vocal cords, the communicate with their tails.
The stomach of a hippo can be up to 10 feet long and hold up to 400 pounds of food.
An Elephant's tusks never stop growing as long as it lives.
A giraffe can run faster than a horse and go longer without water than a camel.
Polar bears are left-handed.
Elephants are not afraid of mice.
All polar bears are left handed.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
Male monkeys loose their hair the same way men do.
Ostriches can run faster than horses and the males can roar like lions.
Skunks can accurately spray their fluid up to ten feet.
A hippo can open it's mouth wide enouth to fit a four foot child inside.
Bats always exit a cave to the left.
Camel's milk does not curdle.
Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.
Giraffes have no vocal cords.
All porcupines float in water.
Tigars have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Rats like boiled sweets better than they like cheese.
The "wild" horses of western North America are actually feral, not wild.
Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.
More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Montana mountain goats will butt heads so hard their hooves fall off.
The legbones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.
Rabbits love licorice.
An ant lion is neither an ant nor a lion.
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
The female ferret is referred to as a `jill'.
The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.
Woodpecker scalps, porpoise teeth and giraffe tails have all been used as money.
An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years.
The word "moose" was originally Algonquin.
When a female horse and male donkey mate, the offspring is called a mule, but when a male horse and female donkey mate, the offspring is called a hinny. The way to get more mules is to mate a male donkey with a female horse.
Asia, North Africa and Europe -- and eotragus -- an antelope-like, Asian forest creature.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Some carnivores, rodents, bats and insectivores have a penis bone, called a baculum.
Opossums have forked penises.
Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis.
Polar bears' fur is not white, it's clear. Polar bear skin is actually black. Their hair is hollow and acts like fiber optics, directing sunlight to warm their skin.
Polar bears camouflage themselves more completely during a hunt by covering their black noses with their paws.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of rhinos is called a crash.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of officers is called a mess.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds.
A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
Hamsters love to eat crickets.
Emus cannot walk backwards.
A bear has 42 teeth.
There are more bald eagles in the province of British Columbia then there are in the whole United States.
There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.
There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.
The gene for the Siamese coloration in animals such as cats, rats or rabbits is heat sensitive. Warmth produces a lighter color than does cold. Putting tape temporarily on Siamese rabbit's ear will make the fur on that ear lighter than on the other one.
Carnivorous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.
When angered, the ears of Tazmanian devils turn a pinkish-red.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
