Random Animal Facts

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    Clever City Birds
    Clever City Birds
    Some birds in cities have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts in order to ward off parasites, as burnt nicotine works as an insecticide to ward off mites, lice, and fleas.
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    Prairie Dogs
    Prairie Dogs
    Prairie dogs affectionately greet each other with a 'kiss'.
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    Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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    A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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    It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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    Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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    Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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    Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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