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  • -A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.
    This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.

    -A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast!
    The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

    -A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

    -Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and
    Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES.

    -The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog.
    Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water.
    Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica.
    Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.

    -There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
    Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
    Young kangaroos are called joeys.

    -A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

    -A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

    -A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

    -A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

    -A zebra is white with black stripes.

    - Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling,
    moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals.
    There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins.
    Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation".
    The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.

    - The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well,
    though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.

    -A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

    The world's largest rodent is the Capybara.
    An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

    The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

    - Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

    -At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

    - The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago

    -A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

    -A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

    -A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

    -The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!

    - The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!

    - A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

    - At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

    - Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

    - A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

    - A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

    -A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

    - An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    -An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    - All polar bears are left handed.

    -Ants don't sleep.

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