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Dogs and bees are able to smell fear.
When you see a dog eating grass, it’s likely that he has an upset stomach, and by eating grass he can throw up and recover.
Cats cannot taste sugar.
Cats are mainly night animals. On an average, they can sleep 16-18 hours per day.
A cat’s whiskers are exactly the width that the cat can still squeeze through without difficulty, and they are also needed for balance. If you cut off the whiskers of a cat, it cannot stand up any more.
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The flea is a great jumper. It can jump a distance of 350 times its body length, comparable to a grown man jumping over 600m.
A female flea drinks about 15 times its body weight in blood per day.
Elephants are the only known animals that can’t jump.
Elephants are particularly fond of beer and other forms of alcohol.
Of all living animals, the largest one is the blue whale. An adult blue whale can reach a length of 30m and a weight of thirty adult elephants.
The call of a humpback whale reaches as far as about 160km or 100 miles.
Sperm whales sleep vertically upside down with their heads at the bottom end.
The weight of all termites in the world is about ten times as much as the weight of all people.
Be careful not to play loud music at home. It is been found that termites like that and will then eat the wood in your house twice as fast.
Ants can lift 50 times of their own weight and can pull 30 times of their weight.
Insects are extremely numerous. There are far more of them on earth than all other animals combined.
Polar bears have been seen running about 40 km/h.
Cheetahs are the fastest land animals. They can run more than 100km/h and can accelerate from
0 to 70 km/h in two seconds!
Giraffes sleep for only a few minutes a day.
Snails can sleep for up to three years without eating anything.
The tapeworm can grow up to 17m (or 50 feet) long. It often lives in the human gut, and you can get it by eating rotten meat.
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