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Mammal Trivia "Chimps also go bald as they age."
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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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