Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.
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Sheep can survive for up to two weeks buried in snow drifts.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.
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