Fun Facts


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Llamas are often used as pack animals? They can carry 25-30% of their own body weight!

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The pupils in a goats' eyes are not round? They have a horizontal, rectangular shape--it gives them greater peripheral vision to easily spot predators.

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Male cardinals will sometimes attack their own reflections? These highly territorial birds will fiercely guard their territories and have been known to show aggression towards their own images reflected by shiny surfaces such as mirrors and hubcaps.


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A lamb can easily identify its mother, even in a large herd of sheep? Each ewe (female sheep) makes its own distinctive sound called a bleat. Lambs can identify their own mother's bleat even in a large crowd!


















 
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