The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. In fact, Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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Beavers can swim half a mile underwater on one gulp of air.
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If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse.
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On some Caribbean islands, the oysters can climb trees.
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The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
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Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
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