FAST FACTS: Animals

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Here are a few interresting facts on my favorite subject:

1. Mammals are the only animals with flaps around their ears.

2. African elephants only have 4 teeth to chew their food.

3. A house fly lives only 14 days.

4. The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.

5. An ostrich can run up to 43 mph.

6. The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal.

7. Pork is the world's most widely-eaten meat.

8. A group of geese on the ground is called a gaggle; in the sky they are called a skeen.

9. In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as there are people.

10. The tongue of a blue whale is as long as an elephant.

11. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth and cannot move it.

12. The slowest fish is the sea horse, which moves at .01 mph.

13. Sharks are immune to all know diseases.

14. The heaviest crustacean ever found was a lobster weighing 42 lbs., and was caught in 1934.

15. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 20" tongue.