Some Amazing Animal Facts (Part 1)



The tiger is the largest member of the cat family.
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The tiny poison arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2200 people!
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The tongues of chameleons are twice the length of their body.
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The tsetse fly kills another 66,000 people annually.
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The turbot fish lays approximately 14 million eggs during its lifetime.
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The turkey was named for what was wrongly thought to be its country of origin.
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The turtle has the lowest pulse rate of any animal: 13 beats per minute.
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The Venus flytrap feeds primarily on ants, not flies.
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The weddell seal, can travel underwater for seven hours without surfacing.
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The whiskers on a catfish are called barbells.
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One beaver can cut down as many as 216 trees per year.
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Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs. Males only drink water and plant juice.
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Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
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Ostriches swallow pebbles to aid in indigestion.
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Owls are one of the only birds that can see the color blue.
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Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.
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SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.
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A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.
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DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.
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A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
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The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.
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DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.
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