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NATURE NUGGETS (2)

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•Nature Nuggets -A	• Nature Nuggets -B
• Swimming Elephants	• Nature Nuggets -C

NATURE NUGGETS-A
The turkey was wrongly named after what was thought to be its country of origin.	Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.
Slugs have four noses.		A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Lobsters have pale blue blood.	Eels have two hearts.	One quarter of all creatures on the planet are beetles.
Out of 20,000 species of bees, only four make honey.		It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
	Koalas are excellent swimmers.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.	Snakes have one lung.	A shrimp's heart is in its head.

SWIMMING ELEPHANT

Like all mammals (except humans and apes who have to learn how to swim), elephants are very good, untiring swimmers.
Elephants move all four legs to swim and are able to move quite fast like that. Their big body provides floatation while the trunk acts like a snorkel.
These strong animals can swim long distances without a problem. Elephants have been found swimming miles from shore in the Indian Ocean. Experts suppose that elephants once swam from Southern India to Sri Lanka where they settled.
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

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NATURE NUGGETS-B
Certain Chinese and American ALLIGATORS can survive the winter by freezing their heads in ice, leaving their nose out to breath for months on end.
A SNAIL can sleep for three years if conditions are adverse (such as during a drought).		BEES have five eyes - three small ones on top of their head and two larger ones in front.
The leg bones of a BAT are so thin that they cannot walk.	GIRAFFES have no vocal cords and communicate by vibrating the air around their necks.	A female OYSTER may produce 100 million young over her lifetime.
MOSQUITOES are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.	POLAR BEARS can swim 60 miles without pausing for a rest.

NATURE NUGGETS- C
	A mole can dig a tunnel three hundred feet long in a single night.	Cattle can produce up to 180 liters of saliva in one day.
Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.		An adult porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every year.
A leech has 32 brains, and can gorge itself up to a maximum of five times its body weight.	An alligator has about 80 teeth in its mouth at one time, and can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.	A turtle can breathe through its butt.
	Some birds have been know to put ants into their feathers because the ants squirt formic acid, which kills parasites.	Owls swallow their prey whole. After 12 hours they cough up the feathers, bones, and fur in a pellet the shape of a football.
During warm weather hippopotami secrete sweat that is pink. This substance not only cools them down but also helps fight infections of the skin.	There is a species of bird that barks like a dog. (Antpitta avis canis Ridgley)