Random Animal Facts

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    A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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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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    Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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    Drunk Ants
    Drunk Ants
    If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
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    One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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    Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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    Dogs Can Detect Sadness, Try to Make Owners Happy by Cuddling
    Dogs can detect sadness in humans and often attempt to make their owners happy by initiating cuddling.
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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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