ANIMAL TRIVIA

Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.

Amphibians see no color; they perceive only black and white.

Insectivores are animals that eat insects.

The average cat consumes about 127,750 calories a year, nearly 28 times its own weight in food and the same amount again in liquids.

It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

It takes approximately 69,000 venom extractions from the coral snake to fill a one pint container.

Dolphins do not breath automatically, as humans do.

It takes the deep-sea clam 100 years to grow to a length of one-third inch.

Dolphins have killed sharks by ramming them with their snout.



Dinosaurs lived on Earth for around 165 million years before they became extinct.

It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell.

A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg from which it has emerged.

A baby blue whale is 25 feet long at birth.

A baby caribou is so swift, it can easily outrun its mother when it is only three days old.

It takes 42 days for an ostrich egg to hatch.

A baby giraffe is about six feet tall at birth.

It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound

A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than 2,000 bottles a day.

It takes about 50 hours for a snake to digest one frog.



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