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- The only two animals that can see behind itself without turning
it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
- In the US, it is reported that the 5 most popular dog tricks
are - Sit, Paw, Roll Over, Speak and Lie Down.
- It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up.
The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling
out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all
of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down
again.
- Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
- Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.
- Asian tree frogs build nests in trees over water. When their
tadpoles hatch, they drop directly into the water.
- The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night.
- The pet ferret (Mustela putorias furo) was domesticated more
than 500 years before the house cat.
- In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed
to have sex without a permit.
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand
likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.
- In Cleveland, Ohio, it's illegal to catch mice without a hunting
license.
- It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
- Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation
in the Western Pacific.
- The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians
in 2000 B.C.
- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than
in any other weather.
- When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for
food.
- Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
- There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
- It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
- 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish.
- Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
- The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract
its claws.
- Swans are the only birds with penises.
- The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.
- A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each
year.
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