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What I Learnt Today : 10 Unknown Amazing Facts About Animals - Part LIV

(1) The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America.
(2) Dolphins can stay active for 15 days or more by sleeping with only one half of their brain at a time.
(3) In 2003, Dr. Roger Mugford invented the “wag-o-meter” a device that claims to interpret a dog’s exact mood by measuring the wag of its tail.
(4) Dolphins and whales were land animals that evolved back to the ocean.

Turkey
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(5) Only 5 to 10 percent of cheetah cubs make it to adulthood. Others are killed by wild animals.
(6) Dogs' sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans', but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.
(7) A ducks quack does echo, it’s just almost impossible to hear.

cheetah cubs
(8) Shark corneas are being used in human eye transplants.
(9) Gray squirrels bury nuts all over the place, and often forget them, growing new trees. This makes them more ecologically friendly than red squirrels, who store nuts in piles on the ground which don’t take root.
(10) Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on Earth and can run at speeds of 45 mph.

Gray squirrel
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Greyhound
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