Random Animal Facts

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    The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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    The Reason Dogs Turn in Circles
    The Reason Dogs Turn in Circles
    Dogs turn in circles before lying down because in the wild this turns long grass into a bed.
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    Cuddle Death
    Cuddle Death
    Once the Queen is deemed unfit to serve due to old age or disease, worker bees form a tight cluster around her until she dies from overheating, a process known as "cuddle death."
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    Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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    Flatworms Mating
    Flatworms Mating
    When flatworms mate, two "males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis, remains a male while the loser becomes female.
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    Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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    Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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    Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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