Facts in "Animals" Category
#1513 - Animals Fact     21  The odds of seeing three albino deer at once are one in seventy-nine billion, yet one man in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, took a picture of three albino deer in the woods. |
| #1514 - Animals Fact 3 A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink. |
| #1515 - Animals Fact 12 Cats often rub up against people and furniture to lay their scent and mark their territory. They do it this way, as opposed to the way dogs do it, because they have scent glands in their faces. |
| #1516 - Animals Fact 8 Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe. |
| #1517 - Animals Fact 4 Catnip, or Nepeta cataria, is an herb with nepetalactone in it. Many think that when cats inhale nepetalactone, it affects hormones that arouse sexual feelings, or at least alter their brain functioning to make them feel "high." Catnip was originally made, using nepetalactone as a natural bug repellant, but roaming cats would rip up the plants before they could be put to their intended task. |
| #1518 - Animals Fact 0 The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages the equivalent of five human years for every day they live, so they usually die after about fourteen days. When stressed, though, the worm goes into a comatose state that can last for two or more months. The human equivalent would be to sleep for about two hundred years. |
| #1519 - Animals Fact 2 You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36. |
| #1520 - Animals Fact 1 Tuatara lizards, from New Zealand, have two eyes in the center of their heads and a third one on top of their heads. |
| #1521 - Animals Fact 6 Because porcupines have hollow quills, they are great swimmers. |
| #1522 - Animals Fact 10 Snakes who have the genetic mutation of having been born with two heads have a hard time eating, because the two heads generally fight over which gets the food. |
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