61801. |
Animal Trivia: The owl parrot can't fly, and builds its nest under tree ----------
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61802. |
Animal Trivia: The favorite horses of both Alexander the Great (Bucephalos) and Julius Caesar both had atavistic mutations - extra toes. Horses normally have only one toe per foot, but are descended from horses with three or four toes on ----------
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61803. |
Animal Trivia: Some species of freshwater eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean to mate. After laying up to 20 million eggs, the female eel dies. The baby eels hatched from the eggs then make their way back to ----------
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61804. |
Animal Trivia: Thirty thousand monkeys were used in the massive three-year effort to classify the various types of ----------
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61805. |
Animal Trivia: The oyster is usually ----------. It begins life as a male, then becomes a female, then changes back to being a male, then back to being female. It may go back and forth many times.
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61806. |
Animal Trivia: The female American Oyster lays an average of 500 million eggs per year. Usually only one oyster out of the bunch reaches ----------
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61807. |
Animal Trivia: Some species of rain forest birds migrate every summer from South America to Canada to ----------
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61808. |
Animal Trivia: The Ozark blind salamander begins life with eyes and plumelike gills. As the animal matures, its eyelids fuse together and the gills ----------
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61809. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- silk is an extremely strong material and its on-weight basis has been proven to be stronger than steel. Experts suggest that a pencil-thick strand of silk could stop a Boeing 747 in flight.
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1 |
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61810. |
Animal Trivia: Tiger cubs are born blind and weigh only about 2 to 3 pounds (1 kg), depending on the subspecies. They live on milk for 6 to 8 weeks before the female begins taking them to kills to feed. Tigers have fully developed canines by 16 months of age, but they do not begin making their own kills until about ----------
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61811. |
Animal Trivia: The part of the foot of a horse between the fetlock and the hoof is the ----------
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61812. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
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61813. |
Animal Trivia: The penculine ---------- of Africa builds its home in such a sturdy manner that Masai tribesman use their nests for purses and carrying cases.
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1 |
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61814. |
Animal Trivia: The female knot-tying weaverbird will refuse to mate with a male who has built a shoddy nest. If spurned, the male must take the nest apart and completely rebuild it in order to win the ---------- of the female.
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1 |
100 |
61815. |
Animal Trivia: Strange creatures, jellyfish are comprised mostly of water - more than 95 percent - and have no brain, heart, or bones, and no actual ----------
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1 |
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61816. |
Animal Trivia: The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If no other pigeon is available, her own ---------- in a mirror will suffice.
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61817. |
Animal Trivia: Sue, the world's largest, most complete, and best preserved ----------, made her grand debut to the public on May 17, 2000 at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois.
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1 |
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61818. |
Animal Trivia: Surviving all dangers, a wild ---------- may live up to 20 years.
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1 |
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61819. |
Animal Trivia: To a human, one giant octopus looks virtually the same as any other of the same size and species. This explains why divers claim to have seen the same octopus occupy a den for ten or more years. But an octopus seldom lives longer than ----------
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1 |
100 |
61820. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
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61821. |
Animal Trivia: To survive, most birds must eat at least half their own weight in food ----------
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1 |
1 |
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61822. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- is a little-known burrowing South American animal that is related to the armadillo, but is smaller in size. The ending of the animal's name is derived from the Spanish ciego, meaning "blind."
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1 |
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61823. |
Animal Trivia: The female ---------- inseminates herself. At mating time, the male deposits a conical mass of jellylike substance containing the sperm. The female draws the jelly into herself, and in so doing, fertilizes her eggs.
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1 |
100 |
61824. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- eat only moving prey.
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1 |
1 |
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61825. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- - a relative of the mole - is the smallest mammal in North America. It weighs 1/14 ounce - less than a dime.
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1 |
1 |
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61826. |
Animal Trivia: The first ---------- dragons to breed in the western world are at the National Zoo at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61827. |
Animal Trivia: Today's oldest form of horse is the Przewalski, or Mongolian Wild Horse. Survivors of this breed were discovered in the Gobi Desert in ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61828. |
Animal Trivia: The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61829. |
Animal Trivia: The first medical use of leeches dates back to approximately 2,500 years ago. The leech's saliva contains a property that acts as an anticoagulant for ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61830. |
Animal Trivia: Toothed ---------- whales live in extended family units that, for families, constitute life-long associations. They differ from baleen whales, which form only temporary bonds.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61831. |
Animal Trivia: The process of a snake shedding its skin or a crustacean casting off its outer shell is called ----------
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1 |
100 |
61832. |
Animal Trivia: The flamingoes of East Africa have few natural enemies. In general, the only predators an adult flamingo need fear are the fish eagle and the ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61833. |
Animal Trivia: Traveling at a rate of 2 to 3 miles per hour, camels can carry 500 to 1,000 pounds on their backs. They are able to keep up this pace for 6 or 7 hours a day. Camels will refuse to carry loads that are not properly ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61834. |
Animal Trivia: The pronghorn ---------- can run up to 61 miles per hour.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61835. |
Animal Trivia: The flounder swims ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61836. |
Animal Trivia: Tuna swim at a steady rate of 9 miles per hour for an indefinite period of time - and they never stop moving. Estimates indicate that a 15-year-old tuna travels one million miles in its ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61837. |
Animal Trivia: The pronghorn ---------- is the fastest mammal to be found in North America, and second only to the cheetah as the fastest mammal on the planet.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61838. |
Animal Trivia: The flying ---------- of Java and Malaysia is able to flatten itself out like a ribbon and sail like a glider from tree to tree.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61839. |
Animal Trivia: Tunas will suffocate if they ever stop ----------. They need a continual flow of water across their gills to breathe, even while they rest.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61840. |
Animal Trivia: The pupil of an octopus's eye is ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61841. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- bird can fly at a speed of 260 miles per hour.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61842. |
Animal Trivia: Turtles survived the upheavals of the last 200 million years, including the great extinction episode that eliminated the dinosaurs. Now, about half of the world's turtle species face possible extinction - due in large part to a growing demand for turtles as a popular dining delicacy and a source of ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61843. |
Animal Trivia: The raccoon derives its name from the Indian word meaning "he who scratches with his ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61844. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- is the first bird mentioned in the Bible. It was sent out by Noah to see if the waters had abated.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61845. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- has green bones.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61846. |
Animal Trivia: The gastric juices of a snake can digest bones and teeth - but not ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61847. |
Animal Trivia: Two rats can become the progenitors of 15,000 rats in less than
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
61848. |
Animal Trivia: The rear portion of the head of a horse is called the ----------
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1 |
100 |
61849. |
Animal Trivia: Unlike most fish, electric eels cannot get enough oxygen from water. Approximately every five minutes, they must surface to breathe, or they will drown. Unlike most fish, they can swim both ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61850. |
Animal Trivia: The ring-tailed ----------, a primate found only in Madagascar, meows like a cat.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61851. |
Animal Trivia: The giant African ---------- grows to a foot long and reaches weights greater than a pound.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61852. |
Animal Trivia: Unrelated to the chicken, the male ---------- bird earned the name "cock" because of its rooster-like appearance and combative behavior. The female of the species influenced the word "rock" being added to the name because of her habit of nesting and rearing the young in sheltered rock niches.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61853. |
Animal Trivia: The ruby-throated hummingbird beats its wings at the incredibly rapid speed of 50 to 70 times a second. If a 170-pound man expended energy at the rate of the hummingbird, he would have to eat 285 pounds of hamburger or twice his weight in potatoes each day in order to maintain his weight. He would have to evaporate 100 pounds of perspiration per hour to keep his skin temperature below the ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61854. |
Animal Trivia: The giant ---------- is the largest creature without a backbone. It weighs up to 2.5 tons and grows up to 55 feet long. Each eye is a foot or more in diameter.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61855. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- bats do not suck blood. They bite, then lick up the flow.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61856. |
Animal Trivia: The giraffe's ---------- is huge; it weighs 25 pounds, is 2 feet long, and has walls up to 3 inches thick.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61857. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- need about 2 tablespoonfuls of blood each day. The creature is able to extract its dinner in approximately 20 minutes.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61858. |
Animal Trivia: Very unusual for carnivores, hyena clans are dominated by ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61859. |
Animal Trivia: The sea lion can swim 6,000 miles, stopping only to ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61860. |
Animal Trivia: The great horned owl can turn its head ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61861. |
Animal Trivia: The sea lion is susceptible to sunburn, and if put on board a ship, will get as seasick as a ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61862. |
Animal Trivia: The grebe, an aquatic bird, has an effective means of escaping danger while protecting its young. At the first sign of danger, it will sink into the water until its back is level with the surface. This allows its offspring to swim over and quickly climb onto its back. The parent grebe then rises up to its swimming position and ferries the chicks across the water to ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61863. |
Animal Trivia: We are sure that whales and dolphins had land-living ancestors, but we don't know what they were like and we don't know how they ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61864. |
Animal Trivia: The sea otter's dark fur is the finest and densest of any animal fur. On an adult animal, there are approximately 650,000 hairs per square inch. A sea otter relies on its fur to keep it warm - it doesn't have blubber as other marine mammals do. Natural oils in a sea otter's fur repel ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61865. |
Animal Trivia: The grizzly bear is capable of running as fast as the average ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61866. |
Animal Trivia: Weighing approximately 13 pounds at birth, a baby caribou will double its weight in just ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61867. |
Animal Trivia: The seeing-eye dog, or any dog trained to guide the blind, cannot tell a red light from a green one. When it lead its master across the street, it watches the traffic flow to tell when it is ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61868. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- is a member of the rodent family. The typical adult ---------- can weigh approximately 8 to 14 pounds and average about 22 inches in length. Groundhogs are also known as "woodchucks," "whistle pigs," and "marmots."
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61869. |
Animal Trivia: The shoebill ----------, native to Africa, is often compared to a statue. The bird will stand perfectly still for long periods waiting for fish to come to surface in the water.
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1 |
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61870. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- can travel up to 45 miles per hour, whereas the rabbit can achieve an average speed of just 35 miles per hour.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61871. |
Animal Trivia: The hides of mature female blue ---------- are more than twice as thick as those of males, probably as a protection against courtship bites.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61872. |
Animal Trivia: What do bats' wings, elephants' ears, flamingos' legs, rabbits' ears, goats' horns, and human skin all have in common? They radiate heat to providing ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61873. |
Animal Trivia: The shrew is known to eat up to its own weight about every three hours. Deprived of nutrition for a day, it may ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61874. |
Animal Trivia: The skin of baby ---------- is so transparent that one can actually see the milk flowing into them as they nurse.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61875. |
Animal Trivia: When a desert ---------- spends the summer of the dry season in a burrow, it is "estivating." When an animal estivates, its metabolism slows and its temperature drops. Animals estivate or hibernate in response to extremes in temperature or lack of food or water.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61876. |
Animal Trivia: The smallest bird in the world is the Cuban bee ----------. It is less than 2 inches long from tip of beak to tip of tail. It weighs 6/100ths of an ounce.
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1 |
100 |
61877. |
Animal Trivia: When a ---------- exerts itself, gets angry, or stays out of the water for too long, it exudes red, sweatlike mucus through its skin.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61878. |
Animal Trivia: The smallest frog is the Gold frog (Psyllophryne Didactyla) of ----------. It grows to only 9.8 mm (3/8 inch).
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61879. |
Animal Trivia: When a school of baby ---------- are threatened, their father opens his huge mouth and the youngsters swim inside to hide. When danger has passed, he reopens his mouth and lets the fry out.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61880. |
Animal Trivia: The smallest of American owls, the ----------, often nests in the Gila woodpecker's cactus hole after the woodpecker leaves. The owl measures barely 6 inches tall. It specializes in catching scorpions, seizing each by the tail and nipping off its stinger. It then swallows the scorpion's body, pincers and all.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61881. |
Animal Trivia: When a ---------- is first born, it is male, and it gradually evolves to female as it matures.
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1 |
100 |
61882. |
Animal Trivia: When a snail hatches from an egg, it is a miniature adult, shell and all. The shell grows with the snail, and the snail never leaves the ----------
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1 |
100 |
61883. |
Animal Trivia: The snail mates only once in its entire life. When it does mate, however, it may take as long as ---------- to consummate the act.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61884. |
Animal Trivia: When baby opossum are born, they are so small that an entire litter can fit in a tablespoon. They live inside their mother's pouch for ---------- before climbing out and riding on her back.
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1 |
100 |
61885. |
Animal Trivia: The sound a ---------- makes is called "nuzzing".
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61886. |
Animal Trivia: When cows graze in their natural head-down position, their saliva production increases by ----------
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1 |
100 |
61887. |
Animal Trivia: The spines on a newborn ---------- start to appear within 24 hours.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61888. |
Animal Trivia: When eating, ---------- often gorge themselves to the point that they can't fly. the bird will quickly regurgitate its meal to become light enough to escape if flight from an attacker is necessary.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61889. |
Animal Trivia: When thirsty, a camel can swig down 25 gallons of water in less than ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61890. |
Animal Trivia: The spiny cheek, starsnout poacher, and monkeyface prickleback are all names of ----------
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1 |
100 |
61891. |
Animal Trivia: When under extreme stress, such as when held in captivity, some octopuses will eat their own arms, which ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61892. |
Animal Trivia: The squirrel monkey's brain accounts for roughly 5 percent of its body weight - the largest percentage of any other animal. The human brain, by comparison, makes up about 2.3 percent of ----------
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1 |
100 |
61893. |
Animal Trivia: The star-nosed mole, with 22 pink ---------- on its snout, is said to have the most delicate sense of touch in the animal world.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61894. |
Animal Trivia: When young, the hoatzin, a crested, olive-colored South American bird, has claws on its ----------
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1 |
100 |
61895. |
Animal Trivia: The stegosaurus had a brain that weighed only 2 ounces and was no bigger than a ----------
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61896. |
Animal Trivia: While awake, hummingbirds must eat at least every 30 minutes or they will starve to death. They need to eat 2.5 times their body weight every day - this takes hundreds of ---------- everyday.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61897. |
Animal Trivia: The striped ---------- can fire its musk stream accurately for up to 12 feet, and even farther with a cooperative downwind.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61898. |
Animal Trivia: While dangerous to swimmers, the fact remains that ---------- are much less dangerous than sharks.
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1 |
1 |
100 |
61899. |
Animal Trivia: The tailorbird of Africa makes its nest by sewing together two broad leaves. It uses fiber as the thread and its bill as the ----------
|
1 |
1 |
100 |
61900. |
Animal Trivia: While some sharks lay eggs, blue sharks give birth to live ----------, as do about two-thirds of all sharks, estimated at nearly 350 species.
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1 |
100 |