A hippopotamus has a stomach 10 feet long, capable of holding 6 bushels of grass.
A Holstein cow's spots are like a fingerprint or a snowflake; no two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A horse can sleep standing up.
A horse focuses its eye by changing the angle of its head, not by changing the shape of the lens of the eye, as humans do.
A horseshoe for a full-grown Clydesdale measures more that 22 inches from end to end and weighs about five pounds. It is more than two times as long and four times as heavy as a shoe worn by a riding horse.
Adélie penguins employ yawning as part of their courtship ritual.
Adult electric eels 5ft to 7ft long produce enough electricity -- 600 volts -- to stun a horse.
Adult polar bears usually eat just the skin and blubber of a seal. They leave the meat for cubs and scavengers. One seal will sustain an adult bear for 11 days.
All cows are females; the males are called bulls.
All mammals have tongues.
All porcupines float in water.
Alligators and old people have something in common, at least auditorily. They can hear notes only up to 4,000 vibrations a second.
Almost half the pigs in the world are kept by farmers in China.
Although beavers live near rivers, streams, and lakes — they do not eat fish. Beavers eat only plants. They eat poplar trees, carrots, cattail, mushrooms, potatoes, berries, water plants, swamp wood, and fruit. Soft bark is the main food for a beaver.
Although manatees are excellent swimmers, the deepest that one has been observed diving is 33 feet. Typically, the large, gentle creatures feed no deeper than about ten feet below the surface of the water.
A horseshoe for a full-grown Clydesdale measures more that 22 inches from end to end and weighs about five pounds. It is more than two times as long and four times as heavy as a shoe worn by a riding horse.
A jynx is a woodpecker, also know as the wryneck because of its peculiar habit of twisting its neck.
A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 13 feet long. A bite from a King Cobra can kill an elephant in 4 hours.
A large Caribbean parrot fish excretes a ton of sand a year. Using two oversized front teeth, it nibbles on seagrass and scrapes algae. Another set of teeth in its throat grinds up the coral it ingests.
A lion in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
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