Random Animal Facts

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    Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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    Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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    The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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    A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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    The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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    Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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    There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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