Animals and Creatures

Bizarre Fact #361:
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The crocodile is surprisingly fast on land. If pursued by a crocodile, a person should run in a zigzag motion, for the crocodile has little or no ability to make sudden changes of direction.

Bizarre Fact #362:
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The Dalmatian dog is named for the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, where it is believed to have been originally bred.

Bizarre Fact #363:
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The digestive juices of crocodiles contain so much hydrochloric acid that they have dissolved iron spearheads and six-inch steel hooks that the crocodiles have swallowed.

Bizarre Fact #364:
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The domestic cat is the only species able to hold its tail vertically while walking. Wild cats hold their tail horizontally, or tucked between their legs while walking.

Bizarre Fact #365:
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The dragonfly has about 30,000 lenses covering the retina of its eye, and thus sees many, many images where we see only one.

Bizarre Fact #366:
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The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

Bizarre Fact #367:
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The dumbest domesticated animal is the turkey.

Bizarre Fact #368:
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The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators.

Bizarre Fact #369:
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The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.

Bizarre Fact #370:
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The female lion does ninety percent of the hunting.