Lion Country Safari - Did You Know

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		An Aldabra tortoise can drink through its nose? The volume of one ostrich egg is the equivalent of 2 dozen chicken eggs? Spider monkeys have no thumbs - just four fingers on each hand? A rhino's horn is made up of matted strands of keratin - which are very similar to hair? A snake smells with its tongue? The gestation period for an elephant is a whopping 22 months? A baby giraffe is 6 feet tall when it is born? There are no bones in an elephant's trunk? An ostrich only has 2 toes on each foot? An elephant's tusks are actually its front teeth? No two zebras have the same stripe pattern - they are as unique as fingerprints? Bison are the largest North American land animals? Alligators often eat snails? A pelican cannot fly with its pouch full of fish (it would be too top-heavy)? A giraffe's tongue is 15 inches long? Baby macaws are blind and have no feathers when they hatch? Snakes cannot blink their eyes? A giraffe has the same number of neck vertebrae as a man or a mouse (seven)? A lion can eat about 85 pounds of meat at one meal, and that could sustain him for a week? The ostrich egg is the smallest egg in relation to body size laid by any bird? Snakes never chew their food; they swallow everything they eat whole? Humans share 97% of their DNA with chimpanzees? A pelican's pouch can hold about 2.5 gallons of water? Lions scavenge food from other carnivores nearly as often as they kill food for themselves? Pound for pound, chimpanzees are roughly 8 times stronger than humans? Rhinos shape their horns by rubbing them on favorite objects (logs, rocks, etc.)? Most birds have a very poor sense of smell? The prominent stripes of a zebra may help camouflage him within a large group - their individual outlines get lost in a sea of stripes? An elephant has only one large tooth in each quarter of its jaw? No other animal has skin-covered, bony horns like the giraffe family? Parrots use their feet to eat and to grab onto objects, like humans use their hands? Female alligators will carry their newly hatched babies to the water in their mouths?

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