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Chameleon Tounge

1. 3 out of 10 Dalmation dogs suffer from hearing loss due to inbreeding.
2. A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.
3. A cockroach can survive for about a week without its head before dying of starvation.
4. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
5. A dog’s sense of smell is 1,000 times stronger than humans.
6. A giant squid’s eyes have a diameter of 15 inches which are the largest of any animal.
7. A goldfish is the only animal that can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
8. A mosquito has 47 teeth.
9. A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
10. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
11. A woodpecker can peck 20 times per second.
12. An albatross can sleep while flying.
13. An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
14. Armadillos, opossums, and sloth’s spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.
15. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
16. Cojo, the 1st gorilla born in captivity, was born at the Columbus, Oho Zoo in 1956 and weighed 3 1/4 pounds.
17. Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.
18. Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.
19. Every year, $1.5 billion is spent on pet food. This is four times the amount spent on baby food.
20. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
21. Hummingbird’s consume half of their weight in food daily.
22. Humpback whales create the loudest sound of any living creature.
23. In 1872, a virus epidemic killed a quarter of all the horses in the United States.
24. It takes a lobster about seven years to grow to be one pound.
25. Large kangaroos can cover over 30 feet with each jump.
26. Male seahorses produce offspring.
27. Mosquitos are attracted most to the color blue.
28. Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about 10 percent still exist today.
29. On average, pigs live for about 15 years.
30. Polar Bears are capable of jumping as high as 6 feet and can run as fast as 25mph.
31. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
32. Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get sick. They are immune to every type of disease including cancer.
33. Some frogs are able to be frozen and then thawed, and continue living.
34. The ‘crosshairs’ of gun sights were made of spider web filaments until the 1960’s.
35. The African Elephant has a gestation period of 22 months while a short-nosed bandicoot gestates for 12 days.
36. The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
37. The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly as fast as 106mph.
38. The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
39. The mortality rate if bitten by a Black Mambo snake is over 95%.
40. The sex organ on a male spider is located at the end of one of its legs.
41. The whale shark has over 4,000 teeth. Each tooth is only 3mm long.
42. There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

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