| 62101. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- fish can swim 100 miles in a single day.
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| 62102. |
Animal Trivia: A type of lizard, the ----------, escapes pursuers by crawling into a crack in a rock and inflating its body with air so that it is wedged tightly into the crack and can't be pulled out.
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| 62103. |
Animal Trivia: A ---------- has about 400 to 700 vibrissae, or whiskers, in 13 to 15 rows on its snout. Vibrissae are attached to muscles and are supplied with blood and nerves. A ---------- moves its snout through bottom sediment to find food. Abrasion patterns created by their tusks show that they are dragged through the sediment, but are not used to dig up prey.
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| 62104. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- that are seen wandering around in the wild do not make good pets. These are sexually mature males at the end of their life cycle - they will die within a few weeks or months.
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| 62105. |
Animal Trivia: The Adélie ---------- bears the name of French explorer Dumont d'Urville's beloved wife.
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| 62106. |
Animal Trivia: Many seabirds that swallow fishes too large for immediate digestion go about with the esophagus filled. Apparently without discomfort, the tail of the fish sticks out of the ----------
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| 62107. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- eagle, swooping at better than 100 miles per hour, can brake to a halt in 20 feet.
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| 62108. |
Animal Trivia: Many sharks lay soft-shelled eggs but hammerheads give birth to live young that look like miniature versions of their parents. Young hammerheads are often born ----------, with the tip of their hammerhead folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.
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| 62109. |
Animal Trivia: Flamingos are not naturally pink. They get their color from their food, tiny green algae that turn pink during ----------
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| 62110. |
Animal Trivia: Marie Antoinette's dog was a spaniel named ----------
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| 62111. |
Animal Trivia: Flatfishes form a unique and widespread group that includes about 130 American species, common in both the Atlantic and ----------
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| 62112. |
Animal Trivia: Because of the giant panda's large size and the small size of their offspring, it is difficult to tell when a panda is ----------
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| 62113. |
Animal Trivia: The albatross drinks sea water. It has a special desalinization apparatus that strains out and excretes all excess ----------
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| 62114. |
Animal Trivia: Marine iguanas, saltwater crocodiles, sea snakes, and sea turtles are the only surviving seawater-adapted ----------
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| 62115. |
Animal Trivia: Frogs never drink. They absorb water from their surroundings by ----------
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| 62116. |
Animal Trivia: Because of their acute sense of smell, dogs are trained to sniff out everything from drugs to bombs to iron ore. In Ontario, Canada, instruments couldn't locate where natural gas was escaping from a pipeline buried 18 feet underground. Trained ---------- were brought in. The dogs worked in sub-zero temperatures and covered nearly 100 miles of frozen ground, ultimately finding more than 150 gas leaks.
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| 62117. |
Animal Trivia: The American ---------- weighs approximately one pound when fully grown.
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| 62118. |
Animal Trivia: Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes, and humans all have seven neck ----------
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| 62119. |
Animal Trivia: Migrating geese fly in a V-formation to save energy. A goose's wings churn the air and leave an air current behind. In the flying wedge, each bird is in position to get a lift from the current left by the bird ahead. It is easier going for all, except the leader. During a migration, geese are apt to take turns in the ----------
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| 62120. |
Animal Trivia: Garter snakes, though reptiles, do not ----------. They bear young, just as mammals do.
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| 62121. |
Animal Trivia: Between the mid-1860's and 1883, the ---------- population in North America was reduced from an estimated 13 million to a few hundred.
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| 62122. |
Animal Trivia: The American ----------, with its eyes placed toward the top of its head, can see backward and upward, and forward and upward, with binocular vision and, laterally, almost 180 degrees with each eye.
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| 62123. |
Animal Trivia: Milk delivered to the store today was in the cow ----------
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| 62124. |
Animal Trivia: Genuine ivory does not only come from elephants. It can come from the tusks of a boar or a ----------
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| 62125. |
Animal Trivia: Bird droppings are a chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the ----------
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| 62126. |
Animal Trivia: The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of ----------
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| 62127. |
Animal Trivia: Gibbons live in family groups and communicate to others through high-pitched songs which can be heard for several miles. Songs are specific to each family and convey information such as location, temper, and social ----------
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| 62128. |
Animal Trivia: Birds do not sing because they are happy. It is a ----------
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| 62129. |
Animal Trivia: The ancient nautilus is considered the most intelligent of the invertebrates; it is said to have been as intelligent as a ----------
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| 62130. |
Animal Trivia: Minnows have teeth in their ----------
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| 62131. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- don't fly by flapping their wings up and down. The motion is more forward and backward, like a figure eight on its side.
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| 62132. |
Animal Trivia: Goats generally need their ---------- trimmed once a month.
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| 62133. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- eagles hunt over a range of 100 square miles to feed their young.
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| 62134. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- played a role in aerial warfare during World War I. Because of their acute hearing, parrots were kept on the Eiffel Tower to warn of approaching aircraft long before the planes were heard or seen by human spotters.
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| 62135. |
Animal Trivia: The average adult ---------- pig weighs two pounds.
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| 62136. |
Animal Trivia: More people are killed in Africa by crocodiles than by ----------
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| 62137. |
Animal Trivia: The average adult male ----------, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
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| 62138. |
Animal Trivia: More species of ---------- live in a single tributary of the Amazon River than in all the rivers in North America combined.
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| 62139. |
Animal Trivia: More than one million stray dogs and over 500,000 stray cats live in the ----------
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| 62140. |
Animal Trivia: Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in a dim light or they are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream. They remain gold when kept in a pond or in a bowl with adequate ----------
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| 62141. |
Animal Trivia: The average capacity of a pelican's ---------- is 12 quarts.
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| 62142. |
Animal Trivia: More ---------- are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
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| 62143. |
Animal Trivia: Gophers are ----------
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| 62144. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- for most snakes is accomplished with one lung only. The left lung is either greatly reduced in size or missing completely.
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| 62145. |
Animal Trivia: The average cod deposits between 4 and 6 million eggs at a single ----------
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| 62146. |
Animal Trivia: Most cows give more milk when they ----------
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| 62147. |
Animal Trivia: Gorillas and ---------- sleep about fourteen hours a day.
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| 62148. |
Animal Trivia: The average cow produces ---------- glasses of milk each day.
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| 62149. |
Animal Trivia: Most ---------- lived to be more than a hundred years old.
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| 62150. |
Animal Trivia: Gorillas do not know how to ----------
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| 62151. |
Animal Trivia: By age 6 months, the voracious ---------- will have increased its 3-pound birth weight by 7,000 percent.
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| 62152. |
Animal Trivia: The average elephant produces 50 pounds of ---------- each day.
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| 62153. |
Animal Trivia: Most tropical marine fish could survive in a tank filled with ----------
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| 62154. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- sea otters spend almost all of their time in the water. Alaska sea otters often sleep, groom, and nurse on land.
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| 62155. |
Animal Trivia: The average ---------- weighs 14 pounds.
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| 62156. |
Animal Trivia: Most varieties of ---------- can go an entire year without eating a single morsel of food.
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| 62157. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- turtles may breed for the first time when they are between 25 to 50 years old. This figure varies, depending upon the creature's range and the diet of the maturing turtle.
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| 62158. |
Animal Trivia: Camel milk is the only milk that doesn't curdle when ----------
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| 62159. |
Animal Trivia: Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while ---------- in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
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| 62160. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
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| 62161. |
Animal Trivia: Mother-of-pearl is not always ----------. It can be pink, blue, purple, gray, or even green. Nor is it produced only by the pearl oyster. The abalone and the pearl mussel both have shells that are lined with fine-quality mother-of-pearl.
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| 62162. |
Animal Trivia: Groundhogs are "fossorial" - they live most of their lives underground. They dig burrows or "dens" that have several entrances. Each is connected with the main tunnel and the nesting chamber where the animal hibernates for the winter. A groundhog's whiskers help it ----------
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| 62163. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- instinctively know their own endurance and will refuse to move beyond it. If their masters try to drive them farther, they will lie down and refuse to budge.
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| 62164. |
Animal Trivia: Groups: A group of unicorns is called a ----------. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. A group of whales is called a pod. A group of geese is called a gaggle. A group of owls is called a parliament. A group of ravens is an unkindness. A group of crows is a murder. A group of bears is called a sleuth. Twelve or more cows is called a flink.
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| 62165. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- were domesticated around 4,000 years ago.
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| 62166. |
Animal Trivia: Camels were used as pack animals in ---------- and Arizona as late as 1870.
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| 62167. |
Animal Trivia: The hippopotamus gives birth ---------- and nurses its young in the river as well, although the young hippos must come up periodically for air.
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| 62168. |
Animal Trivia: The hippopotamus has skin an inch-and-a-half thick, so solid that most ---------- cannot penetrate it.
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| 62169. |
Animal Trivia: The average life expectancy of a leopard in captivity is ----------
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| 62170. |
Animal Trivia: The hippopotamus has the world's shortest ----------
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| 62171. |
Animal Trivia: The average life expectancy of a rhinoceros in captivity is ----------
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| 62172. |
Animal Trivia: Mountain ---------- grow luxurious winter coats - more than three inches of cashmere-quality wool, overlaid with long hollow hairs. The hardy animals can endure winter temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees F, and powerful winds up to 100 miles per hour.
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| 62173. |
Animal Trivia: The hippopotamus is, next to the elephants, the heaviest of all land mammals. It may weigh as much as 8,000 pounds. It is also a close relative of the ----------
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| 62174. |
Animal Trivia: The average minimal speed of birds in order to remain aloft in flight is reported to be about 161/2 feet per second, or about ---------- miles per hour.
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| 62175. |
Animal Trivia: Mussels can thrive in ---------- because of an inborn ability to purify bacteria, fungi, and viruses.
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| 62176. |
Animal Trivia: Guinea pigs were first domesticated by the ----------, who used them for food, in sacrifices, and as household pets.
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| 62177. |
Animal Trivia: The Hirudo leech has three jaws with 100 teeth on each jaw - making 300 teeth in all. The ---------- leech uses a different method of sucking blood. They insert a long proboscis into the victim as opposed to biting.
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| 62178. |
Animal Trivia: Native peoples of South America catch ---------- and use their razor-sharp teeth to make tools and weapons.
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| 62179. |
Animal Trivia: Hamadryas ----------, in ancient Egypt, were believed to be companions and oracles of the god Thoth. They were given the honor of being mummified when they died.
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| 62180. |
Animal Trivia: Canned herring were dubbed ---------- because the canning process was first developed in Sardinia, Italy.
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| 62181. |
Animal Trivia: The Hirudo leech lays its babies within a cocoon; the Amazon leech carries its babies on its ---------- - sometimes as many as 300.
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| 62182. |
Animal Trivia: The average ---------- moves at a rate of approximately 0.000362005 miles per hour.
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| 62183. |
Animal Trivia: Ninety percent of all species that have become extinct have been ----------
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| 62184. |
Animal Trivia: ---------- are the largest of the minnows - it's a big family, including over 300 American species, mainly small freshwater fishes. True minnows (family Cyprinidae) are soft-rayed fishes with teeth in their throats only.
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| 62185. |
Animal Trivia: The horned lizard of the American southwest may squirt a thin stream of ---------- from the corners of its eyes when frightened.
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| 62186. |
Animal Trivia: The Bactrian camel is the only land mammal on Earth that can survive on ----------
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| 62187. |
Animal Trivia: Not all leeches are bloodsuckers. Many are predators which eat earthworms, etc. The nearest relatives of leeches are ----------
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| 62188. |
Animal Trivia: Hedgehog quills are not barbed or poisonous. Hedgehogs do apply a foamy, foul-tasting saliva to their quills, which protects the animals from ----------
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| 62189. |
Animal Trivia: Catnip can affect lions and tigers as well as house cats. It excites them because it contains a chemical that resembles an excretion of the dominant female's ----------
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| 62190. |
Animal Trivia: The hum of a hummingbird comes from the super-fast beat of the wings. The smallest ones beat their wings the fastest - up to 80 times per second. Even the slower beat of bigger hummingbirds (20 times per second) is so fast you can only see a ----------
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| 62191. |
Animal Trivia: The basenji is a mid-sized dog with a silky copper coat. Although they are considered a barkless dog, they are known to ---------- when they are happy.
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| 62192. |
Animal Trivia: Octopi and squid have ---------- hearts. Their main systemic heart pumps blood throughout the circulatory system, and two branchial hearts provide some additional push at each of the paired gills.
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| 62193. |
Animal Trivia: Hens do not have to be impregnated to lay eggs. The ---------- is necessary only to fertilize the egg.
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| 62194. |
Animal Trivia: Of all known forms of animals life ever to inhabit the Earth, only about ---------- still exist today.
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| 62195. |
Animal Trivia: Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than all the lions, elephants, and water buffalo combined, usually by ----------
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| 62196. |
Animal Trivia: Cats have amazing hearing ability. A cat's ear has ---------- muscles that control the outer ear (by comparison, human ears only have six muscles). These muscles rotate 180 degrees, so the cat can hear in all directions without moving its head.
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| 62197. |
Animal Trivia: The hummingbird's tiny ----------, 4.2% of its body weight, is proportionately the largest in the bird kingdom.
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| 62198. |
Animal Trivia: The ---------- eagle of Africa hunts over a territory of 250 square miles a day.
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| 62199. |
Animal Trivia: Of the 250-plus known species of shark in the world, only about 18 are known to be ----------
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| 62200. |
Animal Trivia: Horned ---------- eat ants. They wait in areas where ants are working and when one passes by, they flick out their tongue, catch their prey, and swallow without chewing. Apparently their digestive tract is immune to bites and stings.
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