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When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter.
The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm.
Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss.
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Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
Gorillas are considered apes, not monkeys. The way to distinguish between an ape and a monkey is that apes do not have tails.
Gorilla's have unique nose prints just as humans have unique fingerprints.
Snow Monkeys live in areas where the temperature is an average of -10ºC.
The Old World monkeys include some terrestrial species such as the baboons, while New World monkeys are exclusively arboreal. Some New World monkeys have a prehensile, or grasping, tail. The tail can be used like a hand.
Monkeys are divided into two geographically separate groups - the New World monkeys of South America and the Old World monkeys, found in Africa and Asia.
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The mandrill baboon has a red nose, blue cheeks, and an orange beard!
Chimpanzees use tools more than any other animal except man.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
Squirrel Monkeys are the most common monkey in South-America.
Squirrel Monkeys tails are only partly prehensile.
Squirrel Monkeys move through trees by leaping.
Colobus monkey’s bushy tails, which often exceeds the length of their bodies.
Colobus monkeys have a long, black fur coat with a white stripe running down the sides of their backs to their tails.
Zanzibar is the only place where you will find the Kirk's Red Colobus monkey.
The male howler monkey of Central and South America is the noisiest land animal, which can be heard clearly from a distance of ten miles away.
The Spider Monkey offspring are dependent on their mothers for the first 2 to 3 years, with the females giving birth every 3 to 4 years.
Spider Monkeys will use all five appendages; arms, legs and tail, to scramble through trees.
Spider Monkeys have hook-like fingers, but no thumb, and the tip of their tail can support the weight of their entire body.
Spider Monkeys are very good climbers and are usually found in groups of around 30, often broken up into smaller sub-groups of around 3 or 4.
Groups of Snow Monkeys are primarily formed by adult females, there are roughly three time the number of adult females than there are adult males and young.
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In the U.S., the milk production per dairy cow is approximately 12,000 pounds.
In Colorado, there are about 83,000 dairy cows.
Humans and cows have the same gestation period, which is about nine months.
Dexter is the smallest type of cow. This cow was bred to be a small size for household living.
Dairy cows can produce 20 to 35 gallons of saliva a day.
Cows drink anywhere from 25-50 gallons of water each day.
Cows do not have any upper front teeth. Instead they have a thick pad on the top jaw.
Cows can detect odors up to five miles away.
Cows are able to hear lower and higher frequencies better than human beings.
You would have to milk 260 cows for an entire year to fill a space shuttle's external fuel tank with 529,000 gallons of milk.
There are over 9 million beef and dairy cattle in New Zealand.
There are an equivalent number of cows and people in Friesland, Netherlands.
The temperature of milk when it leaves the body of a cow is 101 degrees Fahrenheit. The milk is then quickly chilled and stored at a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
The temperature of milk when it is coming out of a cow is about 36 degrees Celsius.
Studies have shown that classical music helps cows produce more milk.
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Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites.
Fish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds per square inch. They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder.
One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. They have growth rings just like trees. These are called circuli. Clusters of them are called annuli. Each annuli show one year.
The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
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Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marion’s tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years).
The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.
There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins.
Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.
Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface.
Starfish can have up to 16 arms!
The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long!
Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men.
When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black "ink".
Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.
The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown.
The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.
A newly hatched fish is called a "fry."
At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.
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The chameleon has a tongue that is 1.5 times the length of its body!
Squirrels can't remember where they hide half of their nuts.
Only male crickets can chirp.
A rabbit's teeth never stop growing.
Alligators cannot move backwards.
Texas horned toads can shoot blood out of the corners of their eyes.
The faster kangaroos hop, the less energy they use.
An okapi's tongue can grow to be 17 inches long. An owl's eyes are bigger than its brain.
Salamanders breath through their skin.
The guanaco of South America, a cousin of the camel, has pads on its feet to keep its feet from burning on desert sand or freezing in mountain snow.
Foxes sometimes nip at the heals of cattle so the stomping of the cattle makes mice and other rodents come out of the ground, for the fox to eat.
Salamanders are known to come out of wood when it was burning inside a fireplace, this is because Salamanders hibernate in wood.
Whether an alligator is a male or female is determined by the temperature of the nest where the egg is hatched – 90 to 93 degrees will make it a male; 82 to 86 degrees will turn it into a female.
Some animals produce their own lights, called bioluminescence. The Brazilian railroad worm has a red light on its head and green lights down its side. All it needs to drive on the street is a turn signal.
You may have heard someone say, "It’s raining cats and dogs." There have been actual documented cases from all over the world of fish, frogs, dead birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms and jellyfish raining down from the sky in great numbers, but no reports of showers of cats or dogs.
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Over 100 million birds die annually by crashing into glass windows in the United States.
Kiwis are the only known bird to have nostrils located at the tip of their beak.
In the United States birds and planes collided more than 22,000 times between the years of 1990 and 1998.
In the Middle Ages, peacocks and swans were sometimes served at Christmas dinners.
In order to scare away predators, Giant petrels, a type of seabird, throw up all over the intruder.
The Arctic Tern, which is a small bird, can fly a round trip from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back. This can be as long as twenty thousand miles per year. This is the longest migration for a bird.
The American Kestrel hawk weighs only four ounces.
Storks were a symbol of fertility in Europe and were considered to bring good luck.
Some birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasites.
Pigeons can see ultraviolet lights.
In 1681, the last dodo bird died.
Flamingos are able to fly at a speed of approximately 55 kilometers an hour. In one night they can travel about 600 km.
Blue Jays can imitate the calls of hawks.
Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands.
A seagull can drink salt water because it has special glands that filter out the salt.
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Wild turkeys spend the night in trees. They especially like oak trees.
Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.
Commercially raised turkeys cannot fly.
Turkeys are related to pheasants.
A domesticated male turkey can reach a weight of 30 pounds within 18 weeks after hatching.
2.74 billion pounds of turkey were processed in the United States in 1994.
Turkeys do not see well at night.
A large group of turkeys is called a flock.
Turkeys can see in color.
Turkeys don’t really have ears like ours, but they have very good hearing.
The ballroom dance the "turkey trot" was named for the short, jerky steps that turkeys take.
A 16 week old turkey is called a fryer. A five to seven month old turkey is called a young roaster and a yearling is a year old. Any turkey 15 months or older is called mature.
Illinois produced 2.9 million turkeys in 2003 and ranked 15th in turkey production in the United States.
Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri and Virginia are the leading producers of turkey in 2003. These states produced 75% of all the turkeys raised in 2003.
Gobbling turkeys can be heard a mile away on a quiet day.
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Most turkey feathers are composted.
Turkeys have been bred to have white feathers. White feathers have no spots under the skin when plucked.
Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity.
For their first meal on the moon, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ate roast turkey in foil packets.
White meat has fewer calories and less fat than dark meat.
Turkey is low in fat and high in protein.
According to the 2002 census, there were 8,436 turkey farms in the United States.
50 percent of U.S. consumers eat turkey at least once per week.
Eating turkey does not cause you to feel sleepy after your Thanksgiving dinner. Carbohydrates in your Thanksgiving dinner are the likely cause of your sleepiness.
The five most popular ways to serve leftover turkey is as a sandwich, in stew, chili or soup, casseroles and as a burger.
Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation has presented a live turkey and two dressed turkeys to the President. The President does not eat the live turkey. He "pardons" it and allows it to live out its days on a historical farm.
June is National Turkey Lover’s Month.
Turkey breeding has caused turkey breasts to grow so large that the turkeys fall over.
In England, 200 years ago, turkeys were walked to market in herds. They wore booties to protect their feet. Turkeys were also walked to market in the United States.
Wild turkeys were almost wiped out in the early 1900's. Today there are wild turkeys in every state except Alaska.