Facts in "Animals" Category
#1673 - Animals Fact     8  The African lungfish can live out of water for up to four years. |
| #1674 - Animals Fact 0 Cats can run slightly more than 30 miles per hour. |
| #1675 - Animals Fact 1 At birth a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces. |
| #1676 - Animals Fact 2 The flying gurnard, a fish, swims in water, walks on land, and flies through the air. |
| #1677 - Animals Fact 3 Contrary to popular belief, elephants are not afraid of mice, and they do not have any better memory than any other animal. |
| #1678 - Animals Fact 2 Despite being a nine-inch-tall bird, the roadrunner can run as fast as a human sprinter. |
| #1679 - Animals Fact 0 While there are hundreds of species of sharks, only about seven are marketed and eaten with any regularity in the United States. |
| #1680 - Animals Fact 1 The largest species of seahorse measures 8 inches. |
| #1681 - Animals Fact 4 A camel can lose up to 30 percent of its body weight in perspiration and continue to cross the desert. A human would die of heat shock after sweating away only 12 percent of body weight. |
| #1682 - Animals Fact 3 There are about 500 different kinds of cone snails around the world. All have a sharp, modified tooth that stabs prey with venom like a harpoon. Most cone snails hunt worms and other snails, but some eat fish. These are the ones most dangerous to people. The nerve toxin that stops a fish is powerful enough to also kill a human. |
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