Animals and Creatures

Bizarre Fact #381:
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The golden tree frog has a croak that sounds like a mallet chipping rock, but in summer it sounds like a tinkling bell.

Bizarre Fact #382:
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The greyhound dog can reach speeds of up to 42 miles per hour.

Bizarre Fact #383:
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The hairless area of roughened skin at the tip of a bear's snout is called the rhinarium.

Bizarre Fact #384:
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The heaviest dog on record is an Old English Mastiff named Zorba, who weighed 343 pounds and measured 8 feet and 3 in. from nose to tail.

Bizarre Fact #385:
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The ichneumon fly has a sense of smell so keen that it can locate a caterpillar deep inside a tree trunk.

Bizarre Fact #386:
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The Japanese quail has many values to the people who live in the areas it habitates. They are used for their song, their eggs, their uses as fighting cocks, for their meat, and are carried around in cold weather in South china to keep one's hands warm.

Bizarre Fact #387:
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The Javan rhinoceros - a solitary, single-horned species - is the world's rarest large mammal. Only an estimated 50 to 70 of the animals remain in the wild. There are none in captivity.

Bizarre Fact #388:
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The kakapo is a nocturnal burrowing parrot of New Zealand that has a green body with brown and yellow markings. Its name is from Maori and means "night parrot."

Bizarre Fact #389:
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The katydid has supersonic hearing. It can hear sounds up to 4-5,000 vibrations per second.

Bizarre Fact #390:
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The king crab walks diagonally.