An average-size aardvark weighs about 150 pounds.
Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.
An eagle can attack, kill, and carry away an animal as large as a young deer. The Harpy eagle of South America feed on monkeys.
An elephant may consume 500 pounds of hay and 60 gallons of water in a single day.
A male pig is a boar. A female pig is a sow. A baby pig is a piglet.
A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body. The female marine catfish hatches her eggs in her mouth.
A mated pair of rats can produce up to 15,000 babies in one year.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in one night.
A mother giraffe often gives birth while standing, so the newborn's first experience outside the womb is a 1.8-meter (6-foot) drop.
A newborn Chinese water deer is so small it can almost be held in the palm of the hand.
A newborn gray whale calf is an average 16 feet long. For reasons unknown, all gray whale calves are born in the warm, shallow lagoons of Baja, California.
A newborn turkey chick has to be taught to eat, or it will starve. Breeders spread feed underfoot, hoping the little ones will peck at it and get the idea. Turkeys tend to look up with their mouths open during rainstorms. As a result, many drown.
A normal cow's stomach has four compartments: the rumen, the recticulum (storage area), the omasum (where water is absorbed), and the abomasum ( the only compartment with digestive juices).
A pelican consumes about 33 percent of its body weight in a single meal.
Despite their finickiness, an average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times their own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids. In case you were wondering, cats cannot survive on a vegetarian diet.
Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares. Today the dog is widely used in racing.
An elephant, despite its ponderous appearance, can reach speeds up to 25 miles per hours on an open stretch.
Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.
An extinct species of kangaroo had a head the size of a Shetland pony's and reached a height of more than ten feet.
Dolphins do not breath automatically, as humans do, and so they do not sleep as humans do. If they become unconscious, they would sink to the bottom of the sea. Without the oxygen they need to take in periodically, they would die.
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