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| Did You Know? | Famous Animals |
| The caduceus, the classical medical symbol of two serpents wrapped around a staff, comes from an Ancient Greek legend in which snakes revealed the practice of medicine to humans. Sheep prefer to drink running water. Bumble bees use 21 muscles to sting. There are more cats in London (UK) than there are people in Norway. The Hammerhead Shark is the only aquatic animal in the world that gets sunburned. Feeding dogs any type of sweets is dangerous and can give the dog scurvy. When dogs lap up water they do it with the underneath of their tongue, not the top. Rabbits are not rodents. They are lagomorphs, and are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice. Monkeys and chimps have the highest IQ in the animal kingdom. The Emperor Penguin is the largest type of penguin. A female kangaroo is called a Flyer and a male is called a Boomer. Deer chew the cud just like a cow. |
The name of Jaba the Hutt's pet spider monkey is Salacious Crumb. The horse that Olivia De Havilland rode in The Adventures of Robin Hood was later to become famous as the King of the Cowboy's steed, Trigger. Mickey Mouse started life as Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. He then almost became Mortimer Mouse instead of Mickey. The Tales of Peter Rabbit is the best selling children's book of all time. |
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| "I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." Abraham Lincoln (American President) "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on itself." W.C.Fields (American Film Actor) "The smallest feline is a masterpiece." Leonardo da Vinci (Artist/Inventor/Genius) "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish Author) "Four legs good. Two legs bad." Animal Farm by George Orwell "Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." Ann Landers (American Columnist) "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Activist, son of Martin 'I have a dream...' Luther King) |
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