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Chatterbox: Chirp at Cricket

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I hereby submit this chat as a random animal facts page. anybody can add on, and this is sort of a free education! I SHALL START:

Humming birds flap their wings about 70 times a second---Snakes can't blink---The plural of octopus is octopuses or octopi---Lions are the only wild cats that have puffs of fur on thier tails---Cats have 32 muscles in thier ears---At birth, a baby panda is smaller than a mouse---Oysters can change genders---Earthworms and starfish can regenerate both parts of their body when a piece falls off---Male peacocks are called peacocks, females are called peahens---Female turtles hiss and male turtles grunt---The average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year---About 5-10% of cheetah cubs survive to adulthood---sharks are immune to cancer---About 100 people die each year by being stepped on by cows---A group of butterflies is called a flutter---

You can add, go on. 

submitted by Queen Cobra, age ???, I live in the grass
(February 8, 2020 - 11:15 am)

back to the Chirp at Cricket

Clownfish change gender depending on how stressed they are. So there might be a "queen" of a bunch of other clownfish, and she's always like biting them and chasing them so they stay stressed so they are all boys, and then when she dies the strongest one of them turns into the new queen from lack of stress. Kinda weird but also cool.....

submitted by cerinthe, age 13
(February 8, 2020 - 1:31 pm)

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Cool? I think? 

submitted by Catsclaw
(February 10, 2020 - 11:36 pm)

Wow. That is really weird. Also cool. But maybe more weird...

submitted by Starchaser, age 12, Pyrrhia
(February 21, 2020 - 5:36 pm)
submitted by Toppers Inc.
(February 9, 2020 - 3:32 pm)

An octopus has 3 hearts and a starfish can break off one of its own arms when frightened.

submitted by Emekittycon k, age 11, Kitten Kingdom
(February 15, 2020 - 1:22 pm)

Cow poop is cleaner than human poop because cows have a rigerous digestive process in which they throw up the cud(partially digested grass), chew it, and digest it four times in this way. Yucky!

submitted by possibly wiser, definitely older
(February 17, 2020 - 6:15 pm)

- a group of crows is called a murder

- a group of unicorns is called a blessing 

submitted by Bagel Princess
(February 18, 2020 - 11:28 pm)

A group of ferrets is called a business. 

Instead of saying "cheese" before taking a picture, Victorian-era people said "prunes". (apparently it was so they wouldn't smile? doesn't make a lot of sense to me)

Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks do. (per year) 

Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.

29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day”.

Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia. 

Taking one step uses over 200 muscles. 

Beethoven went out of his way to ensure his morning coffee was made with exactly 60 beans per cup.

Ok, I should probably stop now. But wait! One more!

McDonald’s once made bubblegum-flavored broccoli. I... don't even want to know how that worked... 

 

  

submitted by Agent Winter, age Classified, Infinite Forest
(February 21, 2020 - 7:42 pm)

Sand Cats are the only type of cats that live in the desert. Sand Cats have evolved to not drink any water and instead get all liquid they need from their prey. There are less 200 Sand Cats that are held in zoos. Scientists know very lttle about Sand Cats because they are very hard to study and spot.

I'm kinda absesed with Sand Cats.

submitted by SandCat, age 11, Massachusetts
(February 28, 2020 - 5:56 pm)

I love sand cats too! I'm very obsessed with sand cats. And all cats!

submitted by Blackfooted Bobcat, age Meow, Illinois
(April 4, 2020 - 4:25 pm)