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Facts in category: Animals
| A South African monkey was once awarded a medal and promoted to the rank of corporal during World War I. |
| The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants. |
| Adult ants cannot chew and swallow solid food. Instead they swallow the juice which they squeeze from pieces of food. |
| Ants use their antenae not only for touch, but also for their sense of smell. |
| The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days. |
| An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human. |
| Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. |
| Ants know when they are going to die. |
| Ostriches live about 75 years and can reproduce for 50 years. |
| The largest bird in the world today is the Ostrich Struthio camelus. The North African Ostrich subspecies is the tallest of all the Ostriches. Males can be 2.74 m tall. The head and neck can be 1.4 m long. The average height is around 2 m. |
| The smallest bird in the world is either the Bee Hummingbird Mellisuga helenae from Cuba and the Isle of Pines or the Little Woodstar Acestrura bombus of Ecuador and northern Peru. The male hummingbird is 57 mm and weighs 1.6 g. Half of its length is taken up by the bill and the tail. Some experts think the Woodstar is even smaller. |
| The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans which lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m. |
| The Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus has the longest bill of any bill measuring 34 - 47 cm. |
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