Animals and Creatures

Bizarre Fact #171:
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An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

Bizarre Fact #172:
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Ants stretch when they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Bizarre Fact #173:
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Any Female bee in a beehive could have been the queen if she had been fed the necessary royal jelly. All female bees in a given hive are sisters.

Bizarre Fact #174:
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Apus Australiensis, a shrimp-like crustacean of arid central Australia, survives where other water animals would perish because its eggs hatch only after they have been dried out in the sun.

Bizarre Fact #175:
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Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.

Bizarre Fact #176:
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As much as 40-percent of the entire world's varieties of freshwater fish are to be found in the Amazon River basin. There are about 8,600 species of birds in the entire world, and more than half of them are also represented in this area.

Bizarre Fact #177:
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At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

Bizarre Fact #178:
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Australia has the largest sheep population.

Bizarre Fact #179:
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Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms per day.

Bizarre Fact #180:
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Baby songbirds seem to learn how to sing from the adult birds of their species, and if they are raised by other species, they don't sing the same as their ancestors. They often make strange warbling noises, but may also learn the songs of other species. In the latter case, they can pass these songs on to their offspring.