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What is the world’s smallest mammal?
There has been some debate on this, depending on how you define an animal’s size. The Bumblebee Bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai) is definitely the world’s smallest species of bat. It is about 30mm in...
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What do snakes eat?
This is a very generic question, but one that actually gets asked quite frequently. Of course, the short answer is that snakes have a varied diet, depending on factors such as their species, size,...
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How do spiders spin their webs?
Masterfully. To spin a tale about the spider, member of the species arachnid, we must first examine the common thread that ties them together…the way they produce the silk they use to weave their webs,...
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Is a dog’s mouth really cleaner than a human’s?
The short answer is no. While this myth seems to have been around a while, it has been debunked by several reputable articles over the years. According to ABC News, the mouth of a typical dog is full...
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Do dogs only see in black and white?
Not entirely. It is generally agreed that dogs can distinguish fewer colors than humans, but their vision isn’t entirely restricted to black and white. Rods and cones are the two types of receptors in...
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How Can I Tell What Kind of Tadpoles I Have?
This is a tricky question and one that has befuddled many biologists for a long time. The easiest way, but not always 100% accurate, would be to find a frog near where you found the tadpoles and...
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What is the most poisonous snake in the world?
While this question is often debated, the land snake commonly believed to have the most lethal poison in the world is the inland taipan. They primarily live in the arid deserts of central eastern...
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What is the slowest animal in the world?
Source: http://mindjourney1962.wordpress.com There are a couple of ways this question can be answered. Sea anemones and sponges are animals and they hardly move at all, so I guess one of these guys...
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How can you tell the age of a fish?
Like the rings on the cross section of a tree, fish scales also have rings. Fish scales have concentric ridges called circuli which reflect the growth patterns of the fist and can be used to estimate...
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What animal has the longest gestation period?
You might think the animal with the longest gestation period would be one of the larger mammals, but in fact it is the Alpine black salamander. It is a viviparous amphibian which lives in the high...
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