Random Animal Facts

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    In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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    Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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    A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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    In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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    The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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    Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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    Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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    Haicheng Earthquake
    Haicheng Earthquake
    In 1975, officials in the Chinese city of Haicheng were so alarmed by odd and anxious behavior of dogs and other animals, they ordered the evacuation of 90,000 residents from the city. Only a few hours later, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed nearly 90 percent of the city’s buildings.
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