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Interesting ANIMAL facts....

A horse weighing approximately 1,200-pounds, eats approximately seven times it's own weight, in a year. That amounts to almost 8,400-pounds of food. Wow! What an appetite!

Apart from human’s even chimpanzees can learn to recognize their own image in a mirror.

A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. They can produce almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!

While there are so many cows grazing in the world, no two cows will ever be found with identical pattern of spots.

A zebra is actually a white animal with black stripes. 

A lion’s roar is so loud that it can heard up to a distance of five miles.
 
Cheetahs maybe large and fast, but when they roar they chirp. This sounds more like a bird or a yelping dog. Beware, it is loud enough to be heard up to a mile away.

The tusks of elephants grow through their life. The tusks weigh over 200 pounds.

Only the male Asian elephants have tusks.

The male and female African elephants have tusks.

The largest ever lobster to be found weighed 41.9 pounds (19 kg). It was found in 1934.

The largest recorded jellyfish measured 7.5 feet (2.3m) across its bell. Its tentacles measured 36 m (118 feet) in length.

The largest giant squid ever found weighed 4 tons. It was traced in the North Atlantic in the year 1878.

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