Brain Facts

Did you know:
A lungfish can live out of water in suspended animation for three years. This allows the lungfish to survive during periods of drought. By breathing air from the surface of stagnant or low oxygenated water, the lungfish is able to survive where some species would drown.

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An average snail moves at a rate of 58cm (22.8 inches) per hour.

But how do they move? Snails move by sliding on their single foot. Specialized glands in the foot secrete mucus, which lubricates the path over which the snail crawls. Snails can only crawl. Even those that live in water can’t swim. As they crawl they secrete a slime to help themselves move across surfaces.

Snails don’t walk, they slide.

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The female lion does close to ninety percent of the hunting within a pack.

Lions usually hunt at night, alone, or in groups. Their preferred prey are large hoofed mammals, such as zebras and wildebeests, but they will go after small hares as well as huge giraffes.

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There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos all over the world. 48 kinds of kangaroo live in Australia.

• giant kangaroo, great gray kangaroo, Macropus giganteus — very large grayish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas


• wallaby, brush kangaroo — any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos often brightly colored


• musk kangaroo, Hypsiprymnodon moschatus — small kangaroo of northeastern Australia


• rat kangaroo, kangaroo rat — any of several rabbit-sized rat-like Australian kangaroos

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Gorillas sleep about 13 hours each night and rest for several hours at midday. They build new sleeping nests every night by bending nearby plants into a springy platform, usually on the ground or in low trees. When not resting, they spend most of their time looking for food and eating it.

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Many sharks lay eggs, but hammerheads give birth to live babies that look like very small duplicates of their parents.
Young hammerheads are usually born headfirst, with the tip of their hammer-shaped head folded backward to make them more streamlined for birth.

Did you know:
The human birth control pill works on gorillas.

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The lifespan of a squirrel is only about nine years.

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The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

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The average Dog has better eyesight than a human.

The central retina of a canine eye contains about 20% cones, while humans have an area of 100% cones called the fovea. For a human, the cones work best in mid to high levels of light and have the ability to detect color. While a canines eye works well across most of the light spectrum.