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Some spiders live in burrows and do not spin webs.

How big can clams grow? The giant clam can grow to be 4 feet (1.2 m) and weigh more than 500 pounds (227 kg). That’s a big clam!

Starfish can be lots of colors, like red, yellow, violet, brown or blue.

Have you ever heard of a herd of rabbits? Just like sheep, a group of rabbits is called a herd.

A male mouse is called a buck and a female is a doe.

A baby wolf is called a pup or a whelp.

A female bear is called a sow and a male bear is called a boar.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

Giraffes don’t have vocal chords.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other insects is caused by quickly moving their wings.

The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.

Elephants are not afraid of mice. A mouse is so small compared to an elephant, that an elephant does not even know that there is a mouse close to it.

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'.

A bird's eye takes up about 50 percent of its head; our eyes take up about 5 percent of our head. To be comparable to a bird's eyes, the eyes of a human being would have to be the size of baseballs. Now that would look funny!

Elephants can make their own showers. They suck up water with their trunks and shoot it up in the air so the water lands on them.