Never Feed A Banana To A Bear

• Camels are born deaf. They do not gain a sense of hearing until they are six months old.
• Tigers only defecate at night.
• Since 1989, pigeons in Vatican City have outnumbered human residents by 210 to one.
• 90 percent of American brown bears are allergic to bananas.
• Biologically, zebras are black with white stripes, not white with black stripes.
• One species of slime mold occurs in more than five hundred distinct sexes.
• Farmed salmon requires 3 to 5 pounds of feed (made of ground fish) grow 1 pound of fish.
• After the chinchilla, the hamster and the bonobo, humans are the fourth most sexualized mammal.
• Over forty-five years of space exploration, no fewer than six dogs, eleven cats, four thousand mice and an aquarium-full of crickets are believed to have been stranded in low Earth orbit.
• Each year, the Earth's 1.3 million sperm whales eat a mass of squid equivalent in weight to all of humanity — roughly a dozen people a day per whale.
• The chapter on game in 1950's and 60's editions of the best-selling "Joy of Cooking" included recipes for muskrat, opossum and polecat ("carefully remove scent-glands before dressing").
• The world's largest organism is arguably a termite super-colony, spanning 4300 square miles across southern Kenya.
• During 2005, twenty animals were stolen from US zoos: the smallest was a lizard and the largest was a hippo.
• More people each year are killed by hippos than are killed by lions, coatis, tigers, sharks, crocodiles, impalas, leopards and antelopes combined.
• Red outerwear is banned from coastal Antarctic research stations -- it inflames and enrages the penguin population.
• Krill is expected to account for 12 percent of the world's protein supply by 2012.

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