Animal Facts

    Random Animal Facts

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    A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
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    Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
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    Male Orangutans Can Be Attracted to Women with Red Hair.
    Male orangutans can be attracted to women with red hair. One male, Hsing Hisng, has even ripped pictures of Nicole Kidman out of magazines and placed them in his enclosure.
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    Billy goats urinate on their own heads to smell more attractive to females.
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    A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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    Flatworms Mating
    Flatworms Mating
    When flatworms mate, two "males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis, remains a male while the loser becomes female.
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    Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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    Alex the Parrot
    Alex the Parrot
    A parrot named Alex was subject of a 30-year experiment. His last words to his caretaker were: "You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you."
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