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racoon
  • Racoons eat everything except tomatoes

rabies
  • All mammals can get rabies, but viral reservoirs are found in carnivores (foxes, dogs, cats) and bats
  • Some mammals with rabies become terrified of water
  • More people die from dog attacks than from rabies each year
  • Noone survives from rabies once there are clinical symptoms

yak
  • The yak is an amazing animal. It is so efficient in converting food to energy, that it survives on 50% of what other bovines eat daily
  • The yak breathes less and less per minute the higher up it goes
  • Dried yak faeces is used as fuel in Tibet
  • Yak’s milk has a very high fat content and is often made into butter

platypus
  • female platypus has poisonous claws

bears
  • In hibernation the body temperature of bears remains close to normal. Bears also do not urinate while in hibernation. This contrasts with true hibernators, whose temperature drops close to freezing and rouse to urinate
  • A hibernating bear burns the energy equivalent of 4,000 food calories a day, which is more than the energy some ppl burn each day

rhinoceros
  • A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair

gorilla
  • Gorillas were once considered a mythical creature, like big foot
  • Gorillas have stomachs that are larger than their chests to fit their enlarged intestines, which digest the bulky fibrous vegetation they consume. True for humans?
  • A gorilla’s upper body strength is 6 times that of a human
  • Gorillas’ nose have different shape and wrinkles and are used by researchers to distinguish individual animals in the field
  • Adult male gorillas have large scent glands in their armpits that produce a pungent odor when excited or stressed. =D

zebra
  • Zebras are not black with white stripes, but are actually white with black stripes, coz if any of you animal lovers happen to stare at it’s butt, you’ll notice that the black stripes end there. (Care to look??) thanx Haux Bum

tiger
  • The tiger is the largest member of the cat family. (One guy in “Who wants to be a millionaire” got this one wrong. So soak it in.)

sleep
  • Dall’s porpoise never sleeps, and a porpoise swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps. (maybe that’s why some say it doesn’t sleep)
  • Elephants sleep two hours a day, horses nap standing up, and Sitatunga antelopes can sleep submerged
  • Your body releases growth hormones when you sleep


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