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Bizarre (and Unusual) Animal Facts..!


Spectacled bears are the only kind of bear that lives in South American.

The opening to a cave where a bear hibernates is always on the north slope.

A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.

Rene Descartes came up with the theory of coordinate geometry by looking at a fly walk across a tiled ceiling.

Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.

The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.

All porcupines float in water.

If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die, they need gravity to swallow.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

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Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive!

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fish was named Livingston.

Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.

Camel's milk does not curdle.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

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