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Mammals.
(Mammals are hairy animals, that give birth to live babys, humans also
fall into this catagory. Some well known mammal subgroups are the cat/ feline family, the dog/ canine family, rodents,
and marsupials who have pouches for carrying there young, are warmblooded animals).
Cat night vision is about 6 times better then that
of a human at night. Small cats purs are equal to bigger cat's roars since the bones in their voice boxes are so tightly packed
they can only move a little yet all cats have over 100 volocal cords. Cat's don't have collarbones though so they can fit through any opening that's the size of there
heads.
The smallest cat is the Signapuras that weighs
in at only 4lbs.
Underneath there fur Tigers also have striped skin.
Pekinese dogs are also known as sleeve dogs since they
were once carried by members of Chinese royalty in the sleeves of there coats.
Black lemures are the only other primate besides humans
to have blue eyes.
Pigmy chimps are reputed to be the most sexualy active
animal in existance.
At birth a Panda is smaller than a Mouse.
Polarbears are left handed.
A Koala is not a true bear in a sense that unlike
most bears it's a marsupial(has a pouch).
Kangaroos and Emus can't walk backwards.
Meerkats or Prarrie Dogs aren't dogs or cats yet
are infact a type of mongoos that like most aren't affected by snake venom.
Opposums have the shortest gestation period they are pregnate only 12-13
days/ less than 2 weeks before they give birth.
Beavers are North America's biggest rodents.
Sloths sleep 20 hours a day.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 ft long in just one night.
Aardvarks are the only anteaters with teeth.
Porcupines can actualy float in water.
Erchinas and Duckbilled Platypuses are egg laying mammels/Monotremes.
Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Bats only
have one baby per year. Bat's legbones are so thin that they can't walk.
Rabbits can't vomit. Rabits are also more closely
related to horses than to rodents.
A cow has four stomaches.Cows spots are like snowflakes
there are never two cows with the same pattern of spots.Cows also only sleep 3 hrs a day.
The humps of Camels are were they store fat (not
excess water as some thought).Camels also have 3 eyelids to protect there eyes from the sand.
Reindeer stay warm in the Artic cold by eating moss.
Wapiti is another name for Elk, which are part of the Deer family.
Giraffes are the only animals born with horns, both
male and females come out with boney knobs on there forheads. The tongue of a Giraffe can grow to be 21 inches long.
Elephants are the largest land mammal on earth, and
currently the largest land animal. Elephants can't jump, though they have knees on all four legs.
Asiastic Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal, they
are pregnate 608 days/20 months/1 3/4 year before giving birth.
Grey Whales migrate 12,500 miles from the Artic to
Mexico and back every year.
The Blue Whale can produce a sound of up to 188 decibles which is the
loudest of any living animal. This sound has been dectected as far away as 530 miles.
Orcas are members of the Ocean Dolphine
or Delphinidea family. The shape of an Orca's dorsal fin coupled with the markings on it's saddle patch (located behind
and below the dorsal fin) can be used to identify a spesfic Orca.
Dophins sleep with one eye open.
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Reptiles
(Reptiles are beings with a lot of skin that can be either smooth or
rough. Most lay eggs. a lot of reptiles spend most of there time in the water or near the water, and are cold blooded).
Frogs don't drink water, they absorb it through there
skin. Frogs can't swallow with there eyes open.
Bull frogs are the largest frogs in the United States.
Crocodiles can't stick their tongues out.
An Alligator's sex is determined by the temprature
of the nest where the egg is hatched higher temps (90-93) male lower (82-86) female. They can also go through 2,000
to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
Caimans are part of the Alligator family found in Central and South
America. They are more agile and crocodial like in there movements, and have longer and sharper teeth than true Aligators.
Caimans also don't have a bony septum between there nostrils, and there armor is composed of bony scutes(scale like skin features),
each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
The Gila monster a slow moving nocturnal lizard
that hunts by smell is one of only two truly poisonus lizards. Venom is contained in glands in the back part
of a Gila's lower jaw, so that only by chewing can it bring it's venom into play.
Worlds largest anphibians are the Giant Salamanders they
can grow up to 5ft in length.
Most snakes have 6 rows of teeth. Snakes usualy
shead one whole layer of skin at once. Snakes are true carnivores as none of them eat any type of plant material.
Egg Eater snakes have complex digestive systems that
allow them to swallow and break down eggs, then regergitate the shells.
Sea Snakes are the most poisonous snakes in the
world.
After mating the North American male Gardner Snake
closes up the female's sexual opening with a plug made from his kidney secretions.
Rattlesnakes gather in groups to sleep throught the winter,sometimes
up to 1,000 snakes will coil up together to keep warm.
Pythons may only need to eat 4-5 times a year depending on how big
of a meal they have, since the bigger the meal the longer it takes to digest.
The Black Necked Cobra of Africa spits venom into
a victims eyes causing blindness.
The King Cobra is the largest of all poisonous snakes and can
grow to over 13 ft. A bite from a King Cobra can kill an elephant in 4hrs.
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Dinosaurs.
(at first though most believed they were related to reptiles, yet they
are now believed to have closer ties to birds. Like both they lay eggs, and most lived on land, yet all of them are extincted).
The Ankylosaurus's were the last of the armored
dinosaurs to evolve and the biggest. They had large oval plates embedded (fused) in their leathery skins. They had a
row of spikes coming out from either side of their bodies. They also had spikes around their necks and a club
tail, these were considered the best armored
dinosaurs.
Brachiosauruses walked on four legs like other Saurapods. These plant eaters
probably ate leaves of the tops of trees. They lived in herds, these dinos also had very small brains. Saurapods in general
also had high blood pressure in order to keep them alive.
Corythosaurus's which name means "helmet head" were large duckbilled herbavores.
These dinosaurs had head creasts which may have been used to make noises, to regulate body temprature, or to enhance
their sense of smell.
Gallimimus was the chicken mimmic dinosaur.
This bipedal carnivore lived during the late Cretasious period. It's the largest ornithornimid found to date at 11 ft height, 18 ft
in length, and fully grown weighted up to 280 lbs.This dinosaur roamed what's now Mongollia. It resembels an
ostrich.
Pachycephalosaurus was the thick skulled/ domed dino that might have used it's
skull as a defensive weapon. Some say that males would challange each other to headbutting duels in order to win mates. The
10 inched domes of these dinos were flanked by a halo of five inched bone spikes. One of many bipedal plant eaters. He
was also the largest and last of the "Bone head" family living in the late Cretacious period.This rare bread of Dinosaur was
first found in Montana.
The Pterodactly means winged finger. Classified by Palentologists as reptiles these
creatures had wingspans that were up to over 40 ft long (from tip to tip). It's said they also had above average eyesight
to help them catch there prey, these winged reptiles were carnivores, they lived in the late Mesozoic era. Fossils of these reptiles have been found in America, Europe, Australia, and Africa.
The Spinosauruses were named because this meat eater had
a serries of nearal spines forming a fin that looked like a sail. This fin may have helped it controll it's temprature,
and helped it durring mating rituals. It also had sharp straight teeth and a crocodile like lower jaw.
The name Tyrannosaurus Rex means tyrant lizard king. The arms of thes bipedal
dinosaurs were only 3 ft long. Their teeth were cone shapped, and could tear through bone.They also had about 200
bones. Some state that this big dino could have been both a preditor and a scavanger (one who eats already dead animals).
The Triceratops were dinosaurs with three horns on there
face, these dinos lived in herds and were plant eaters. Their horns may have been used in mating rituals or to fight of predators.
Since dinosaurs died out a long time ago, it's hard to
know how accurate some of the information regaurding these creatures is.
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Birds
(Mostly feathered animals with more than 1/2 the species of birds
being able to fly. All birds lay eggs).
There are 27 or 29 major groups/ orders of birds
in the world.
The Peregrine Falcon can dive at a speed that may
exceed 200 mph,making them the fastest animal alive.
The adult female Bald Eagle are 30% larger
then the males. They reach maturity in 5-6 yrs. Their nests can be up to 8 ft across and weigh about a ton.
These nests are usualy built to last as the Eagle tends to use it as a permanent home. The Bald Eagle mates for life.
Owls are one of the only types of birds that can see the color blue.
Vultures can soar for hrs without one beat of their
wings.
The real reason ostriches stick their head in the
sand is to search for water. it's also a fact that their eyes are bigger than their brains.
Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
On the ground a group of geese is called a gaggle,
in the air a groupof geese is called a skien.
Ducks have no nerves or blood vessels in there feet so there feet don't
get cold even when they go swimming in icey water.
Kiwi's are flightless birds that live in New Zealand
and have become the New Zealand National emblem.
Hummingbirds are the only type of birds that can
fly backwards. Hummingbirds though can't walk. These birds also eat about every 10 minutes, slurping down twice there
body weight in nectar every day.
The extint Dodo bird is believed to have been part
of the parrot family.
The Hooded Pitouh of Paupa New Guinne is the
only known poisonus bird. The poison being found in its skin and feathers.
The African Penguin or Blackfoot Penguin lives
of the cost of Africa and spends most of it's time in the water looking for fish. They molt for three weeks during a year
during this time they can't swim, which means they don't eat.
The Arctic Tern is a small bird that makes the longest
migration of all birds as it spends it's summers in the Arctic and winters in the Antarctic.
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Sea Creatures.
(not all the Sea creatures under this title
are fish. These are creatures found in rivers, lakes, or oceans).
The comon goldfish is the only animal that can see
in both ultra violet and infer-red light.
A worn out or dislodged sharks tooth will be replaced
in 24 hrs by the next tooth in line.
Sharks are immune to cancer.
The Whale Shark is the largest fish and can be over
50 feet wide and weigh about 2 tons. They also have 300 rows of teeth.
Mako sharks are the fastest swimmers at 43mph.
The Sand Sharks are the only sharks that have an air bladder, which alows
them to float.
The Astralian Stonefish is the most poisonous fish
in the world.
A prick from the barbs of a Zebra fish can cause gangreen,
convulsions, cardiac failure, and even death.
In the case of reproduction the seahorse is the only
animal on earth that has it were the male get's pregnate. what happens is that the female releases her eggs into a special
pouch in the males stomach, the male fertilizes these eggs and then the stomach takes on the rounded shap of pregnancy.
The giant squid has the largest eyes of all the animals
in the world.
Octopus pupils are rectangular.
A starfish can have up to 16 arms. They are also
the only animals that can turn there stomachs inside out.
The Linckia Columbia starfish can regenerate
it's whole body from a 1/2 inch severed peice.
An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650
volts enough power to start 50 cars.
One of the most lethal venomes comes from the Sea Wasp, a member
of the jellyfish family found in Austrailia.
The Box Jellyfish is the deadliest Jellyfish in the world and is also
found in Austrailia.
Clams have a row of eyes around there shells.
The second most numerous of living things are mollusks
- soft bodied animals with hard shells.
Shrimp can only swim backwards. Shrimps hearts are
in there heads.
The blood of a lobster is colorless, until exposed
to oxygen then it becomes a blueish color.
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Bugs&Insects.
(Bugs and Insects are both
considered small multi legged things, some of which can fly, some are helpful, while others are harmful).
Earth
Worms have 5 hearts.
Slugs have 4 noses.
A snail can sleep for three years without eating.
Most snails are hermaphrodites (both male and female). Cut off a snails' eye and it will grow a new one.
In the middle ages spiderwebs were used to cure warts.
Female black widow spiders eat their mates after mating.
Only the bite of a female black widow is poisonus.
Desert Tarantula's are reluctant to sting humans,
yet if they do it's venome is almost a kin to that of a bee sting. These huge and hairy spiders have even been
known to eat small birds.
Scorpians have been on this earth since well
before the dinosaurs. There are atleast 25 species of these arachnids that have stingers that are leathal to humans. Some
of these bugs can even go a year without food. Scorpians can also have up to 12 eyes.
Leaches have 32 brains.
Bee's stingers have barbs, which makes them
hard to pull out, wasps don't and that's why they can sting a victim repeatedly. Bee's can see in ultraviolet light. Queen
Bees can lay between 800 and 1,500 eggs a day.
Bumblebees are said to be more effective pollinators than Honey bees,
though typicaly there are only a couple hundred per colony.
Inchneumon belong to the same family as bees and
wasps, play an important role in controling some of the U.S more harmful insects. They have long tails with ovipostors
that can peirce several inches of wood.
A roach will live 9 days without it's
head. These insects also have white blood. Roaches use their feelers as noses and can reconize freinds and family
by their distinctive odors.
The Rinoceros beetle can carry up
to 850 times it's weight on it's back.
Adult Ladybugs eat about 100 aphids a day while
larva eat about 100 aphids an hour, they also eat other garden pests.
Fireflies/Glowbugs are actualy members of the
beetle family. Glowworms are the flightless female versions of this insect.
The average housefly lives for one month. These creatures
have been known to carry more diseases than any other animal in the world.
A flea can jump 350 times it's body length.
Mosiquitos have 47 teeth. Mosiquitos are the top animal responsible
for the most human deaths world wide.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
The Dragonfly family has been around since before the age of the dinosaurs.
There are over 5,000 species of Dragonflies.
Short Horned Grasshoppers have excelent hearing and eye sight.
Usualy have two sets of wings, the front wings are able to cover the back wings when not in use. There calls are made
by rubbing there front wings against there back wings.
If you see a swarm of locusts it's usualy because food is scarce, they
gather up into huge swams sometimes containing as many as 50 billion and swoop down onto crops stripping the land bare.
Long horned grasshoppers make there calls by rubbing there two
wings together as one has a scrapper while the other has a ridged vein.
Termites work all day without rest, and they've been
around for 250 million years. Termites king and queen stay together for life (a rarety among social insects). In a colony
most termites arr blind wingless workers that build the nest and tend the queen and the larva. Termites eat wood twice as
fast when listening to heavy mettle music.
An ant can lift 50 times it's weight or pull 30 times
it's weight. An ant's brain contains
250,000 brain cells. Ant's can't chew there food, they move there jaws sideways to extract the juices from there food.
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People Information
(It's believed in evolutionary theory that we decended from monkeys,
and apes).
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.The average
computer user blinks 7 times a minute. Human eyes don't freeze because of the salt in our tears.
Women dream more than men, and children dream more than adults. More
people dream in black and white than in color. People dream an average 5 times per night each dream gets longer than
the last, ranging from 10 to 45 minutes. An average person has atleast 1,460 dreams a year. The average person
falls asleep in 7 minutes.
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning
than women are.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day while women loose
about 70 hairs a day. The average scalp has 100,000 hairs. Redheads have the least amount at 80,000 brown and black haired
people have 100,000 while blonds have around 120,000 hairs on there heads.
Men can usualy read smaller print than women while
women usualy hear better than men do.
Men sweat 40% more than females.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the
palms of their hands. Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Women's index fingers are larger than
there ring finger, while men's are shorter than ther ring finger. Only 7% of the population are lefties. 10% of
men are left handed, while only 8% of women are left handed.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but
our nose and ears never stop growing. As babies we are born with 300 bones, yet by the time we reach adulthood we have only
206 bones in our bodies.
Human ribs move about 5 million times per year each
time a person breaths. A person breaths in almost 7 quarts of air a minute.
Bones can endur up to 24,000 lbs of presure
per square inch.
Babies are born without knee caps they don't
appear until they are 2-6years old.A newborn babie's head accounts
for 1/4 of it's total weight.
The average life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
A tongue print is as unique as a finger print. The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body. It's imposible for a person to lick their own elbow.
Atleast 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the
human brain every second. A normal human brain weighs 3 lbs, and all but 10 oz of that is water. Human brain cells
are the longest living cells in the human body, they can last a lifetime.
Humans create and kill about 15 million red blood cells
per second. A human can loose 4 pints of blood before they die.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even
your heart. A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h. On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
With quality sleep a human immune system is strengthened,
cells are repaired, and mental functions are sharpened. 1/3 of a human's life is spent sleeping. The average person
falls asleep in 7 minutes.
People who have never married are 7.5 times more
likely to be hospitalized in a state or community psychiatric facility than those who married.
A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth
every 10 years.
The average person takes about 18,000 steps per day.
Average persons hand flexes it's finger joints atleast 25 million times in there lifetime.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years
waiting in lines. During an average life time a person eats about 60,000 lbs of food. In a life time a person will spend atleast 2yrs on the phone.
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