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	Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly. Yes, it's true, with a huge 985 species bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species.
	The meek shall inherit the earth, or at least Australia which is a reasonable portion of it. With about 147 million head of sheep, there are about 8 to 9 sheep for every person in Australia.
	A prehistoric mammal, the extinct Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus, had the largest antlers ever. A specimen found in an Irish peat bog had antlers 4.3 m or 14 ft across which weighed 45kg or 100 lbs.
	The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, eats over 10,000,000 ants or termites a year.
	No two Giraffes have the same pattern of spots and no two Zebras have the same pattern of stripes.
	Whales and dolphins sleep one side of their brains at a time - while one side is asleep the other keeps watch for danger.
	Sperm Whales can stay submerged for up to two hours descending over a mile below the surface.
	The Andes Fishing Mouse was first recorded for science when scientists from the British Mammal Society watching a television programme on the 'Wildlife of the Andes' saw a specimen in the programme and realised that no records of it existed.
	House mice, Mus musculus, have on several occasions been so numerous that they had a population density of over 200,000 per hectare,that's 2 mice for every square metre of land if they were all spaced out evenly.
	Rodents, at least the few species that are pests, cost us about £43 million tonnes of damaged and destroyed food every year.
	There is a vine in Madagascar that is pollinated exclusively by lemurs.
	Chimpanzees can go bald as they age.
	A female kangaroo can produce 2 different kinds of milk at the same time when she is suckling youngsters of different ages.
	Anteaters are the only placental mammals to have no teeth.
	Hippopotamuses produce a special reddish oil from modified sweat glands that acts like a sun-cream to stop them getting sunburned.
	Shrews evolved 54 million years ago, today some species have such fast metabolisms that they need to eat up to 1.3 times their own weight in food everyday.

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