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4121/ Turtles, tortoises and
terrapins do not have teeth. They have hard, horny jaws that
are able to cut and tear food.
4122/ The voice of Tony the Tiger
is Thurl Ravenscroft.
4123/ In Ivrea, Italy, thousands
of citizens celebrate the beginning of Lent by throwing oranges
at one another.
4124/ Pineapples do not ripen
until after they have been picked.
4125/ Walking catfish of Florida
can stay out of water for 80 days.
4126/ Using its web - the skin
between its arms - an octopus can carry up to a dozen crabs
back to its den.
4127/ There are more species
of fish than mammals, reptiles and birds combined.
4128/ Bats can eat from one-half
to three quarters their weight per evening.
4129/ The Everglades Kite Bird,
in Florida, will only eat apple snails. The kites are becoming
rare because as the Everglades dry up, the apple snails are
dying out.
4130/ It takes 24 hours for a
tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell.
4131/ Dinosaurs lived on Earth
for around 165 million years before they became extinct.
4132/ Disc-winged bats of Latin
America have adhesive discs on both wings and feet that enables
them to live in unfurling banana leaves (or even walk up a
window pane)
4133/ The American opossum, a
marsupial, bears its young just 12 to 13 days after conception.
4134/ When angered, the Tazmanian
devil turns pinkish red.
4135/ There is no record of a
non-rabid wolf attack on a human.
4136/ The zorilla is the smelliest
animal on the planet. Its anal glands can be smelled from
a half mile away.
4137/ Between 1902 and 1907 the
same Tiger killed 436 people in India.
4138/ Caterpillars have about
4,000 muscles. Humans, by comparison, have only about 600.
4139/ Certain fireflies emit
a light so penetrating that it can pass through flesh and
wood.
4140/ When cornered, the horned
toad shoots blood from its eyes.
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