Some snakes have as many as 200 teeth , a lot more than people
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There are approximately 350 squirts in a gallon of cow milk
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Cats, if falling can put all four paws facing the ground in less than 1/2 a second.
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Children that grow up with pets tend to have less allergies.
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Each day 10,000 humans are born in the U.S.--and each day 70,000 puppies and kittens are born. As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes for all the animals
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That it is estimated that there are more than 750 million horses in the world.
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Coyotes are a close cousin of all pet dogs. The coyote's scientific name (Canis Latrans) meands 'barking dog'.
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That there are over 300 different breeds of horses and ponies around the world.
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The female flea consumes 15 times her own body weight in blood daily.
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Mosquitoes have been found to prefer biting people with smelly feet.
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Giraffes can clean their ears with their half metre long tongue.
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Americans spend more money on dog food each year then they do on baby food.
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Inbreeding causes 3 out of every 10 Dalmation dogs to suffer from hearing disability.
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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
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The normal temperature of a cat is 101.5 degrees.
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Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
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Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
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A dog's nose has over 200 scent receiving cells.
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Greyhounds are used as blood donors for other dogs because their blood is the richest.
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The cat's brain needs so much energy to function that over twenty percent of blood that the heart pumps goes immediately to it.
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An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
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The average outdoor only cat has a lifespan of about three years. Indoor only cats can live sixteen years and longer.
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Hyenas have an appetite for just about anything -- and unlike many mammals, they can even digest bones.
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A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
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The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
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Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.
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Rats are omnivorous, eating nearly any type of food, including dead and dying members of their own species.
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An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
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Elephants can communicate using sounds that are below the human hearing range: between 14 and 35 hertz
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The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
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The venom of a female black widow spider is more potent than that of a rattlesnake.
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The word "puppy" comes from the French poupee, meaning "doll."
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The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.
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Swans are the only birds with penises.
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A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, and no one knows why.
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A shrimp's heart is in their head.
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Did you know that if a frog eats enough fireflies, he'll glow?
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The animal responsible for the most human deaths worldwide is the mosquito.
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A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
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A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Ants don't sleep.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.
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Cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
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