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Some baby giraffes are more than six feet tall at birth.
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Swans are the only birds with penises.
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Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length
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The "caduceus" the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff - comes from an ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to human beings.
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The 1st buffalo ever born in captivity was born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo in 1884.
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The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was formed in 1866.
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The anaconda, one of the world's largest snakes, gives birth to its young instead of laying eggs.
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The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
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The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
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The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).
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The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.
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The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
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The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
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The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
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The calories burned daily by the sled dogs running in Alaska's annual Iditarod race average 10,000. The 1,149-mile race commemorates the 1925 "Race for Life" when 20 volunteer mushers relayed medicine from Anchorage to Nome to battle a children's diphtheria epidemic.
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