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• Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.
• The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1oz.
• Insects do not make noises with their voices!
  The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.
• The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are: The rabbit and the parrot.
• A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
• A snail can sleep for 3 years!
• A cat can run about 20 miles per hour when it grows up.
• A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
• A cheetah can run 46 miles per hour - that is really fast!
  The fastest human being only runs about 18 miles per hour.
• The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
• Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES?
• Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds.
• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.
• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
• The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, and it can weigh more than 100 pounds!
• The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.
• Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
• At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.