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Facts in category: Animals
| The smallest known egg is the egg of the Vervain Hummingbird Mellisuga minima of Jamacia and nearby islets. The egg is barely the size of a pea and measures less than 10 mm in length and weighs 0.356 g. |
| Emperor Penguins Aptenodytes forsteri make the deepest dive of any bird ranging from 444 - 483 m. They also stay under water the longest. The maximum dive time recorded has been 18 minutes. |
| The only poisonous birds known are the three species of Pitohui from Papua new Guinea - the Hooded Pitohui Pitohui dichrous the Rusty Pitohui P. ferrugineus and the Variable Pitohui P. kirhocephalus. The Hooded Pitohui is the deadliest. The skin and feathers contain almost the same homobatrachotoxin as the Poison Arrow Frogs. |
| The rhinoceros's horn is made of the same stuff found in our hair and fingernails which is called keratin. It also contains something called gelatin. |
| The typical laboratory mouse runs 2.5 miles per night on its treadmill. |
| A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour. |
| The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians. |
| 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. |
| The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. |
| 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. |
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