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Old 10-01-2008, 09:57 PM
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Did you know that.....

Thought it might be an idea to have a place were we could share random facts about random animals, which aren't worthy for a own thread, but this way they can still be shared!
A few did you know I can think of at the moment:

...ants count their steps
...cockroaches can live without their head for 9 days (they only die because they don’t have a mouth to eat with anymore!)
...polarbears don’t have white hairs, but appeare so because they are hollow and see-through
...the brain of a ostrich is smaller than it's eye
...a rat can last longer without water than a camel can
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Old 11-01-2008, 09:03 AM
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Here's a few

Dingoes, wild dogs of Australia, do not bark.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

Camel milk does not curdle.
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Old 12-01-2008, 05:32 PM
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Here a couple more:

The platypus is the only poisonous mammal. On both ankles, the male Platypus has sharp poisonous spurs which can kill small animals.

Fruit flies can get drunk and when they do, they become attracted to the same sex.
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Old 12-01-2008, 06:36 PM
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Here a couple more:

The platypus is the only poisonous mammal. On both ankles, the male Platypus has sharp poisonous spurs which can kill small animals.
I think that Platypuses, along with the different Echidna species, are the only mammals in the world to lay eggs! Such strange creatures.
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Old 12-01-2008, 07:45 PM
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I think that Platypuses, along with the different Echidna species, are the only mammals in the world to lay eggs! Such strange creatures.
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Yes, the monotremes (Monotremata) are similar to birds in many other ways. Monotreme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm impressed that there is now a Sir David's Echidna - Zaglossus attenboroughi .
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Old 12-01-2008, 07:49 PM
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An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
That is amazing .... although does it go fully to sleep? Indeed do all animals "sleep" in the same way - you can watch cats, large or small that appear to be asleep but will open a very observant eye when something approaches. Catnapping () ... but if you look at a row of birds in a roost, are they asleep as we think of it?

Mind, I've seen humans dozing in cars at far higher speed than 25 mph
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The temperature at which crocodile eggs incubate determines the sex of croc.
A cheetah can’t roar or retract its claws like other big cats.

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Old 14-01-2008, 01:24 PM
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Think there are a few poisonous mammals, In Britain we have Europe's only poisonous mammal the Water Shrew Neomys fodiens which uses its poisonous saliva to stun its prey.
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The spotted hyena has the strongest jaws of any mammal.It can remove a human limb on the run!
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Today I was told that galls used to be used for making yellow ink and it was taught at schools how to make it.
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