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goldfish get motion sickness

An electric eel can give a shock of up too 800  volts 

A mole can dig 250 feet of tunnel in one night                                                

An elephants trunk can hold 2 gallons of water

All domestic hamsters are descended from 1 wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 in syria

Sloths move so slow that algae grows on them. They also spend 75% of their lives asleep.

The average dairy cow produces 4 times its own weight in manure each year

Snakes hear through their jaws

 The Great American Anteater eats more than 30,000 ants a day

An elephant's trunk has 40,000 muscles but no bone

Being short sighted, a moose  will sometimes approach a car thinking it's another moose

A hedgehogs heart normally beats 120 times a minute but drops to 20 when hibernating

Condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of it's body

A group of frogs is called an Army and a group of kangaroos is called a Mob

A rat can last longer without water than a camel

A scallop has a total of 35 eyes which are all blue

A woodchuck breathes 2,100 times a hour, but it only breaths ten times an hour when hibernating

Giraffes rarely sleep for more 20 minutes a day.

There are more insects in 1 square mile of rural land than there are humans on the whole earth.