hunt for puffins (though puffin hunting is now illegal)
⢠The Xoloitzcuintli, or âshow low,â formerly known as the Mexican hairless, which is the national dog of Mexico
The top eight most expensive dog breeds are:
⢠Pembroke Welsh corgi: $1,000
⢠Saluki: $2,500
⢠Chow Chow: between $1,000 and $8,500
⢠Egyptian pharaoh hound: between $2,500 and $6,500
⢠Löwchen: between $5,000 and $8,000
⢠Canadian Eskimo dog: $7,000
⢠Old English bulldog: $9,000
⢠Tibetan mastiff: between $2,000 and $7,000. Big Splash, or âHong Dong,â is an exceptional red Tibetan mastiff that sold for $1.6 million to a Chinese coal baron in 2012, a world record price for any dog. The breed, which weighs 180 pounds, is highly priced because these dogs are considered to be pure âChineseâ and rarely found outside Tibet. Genghis Khan and Buddha are believed to have kept them. Matings with this dog go for about $100,000 a pop.
BY A NOSE
The nose of a dog has a flap in the nostrils that deflects exhaled air to the sides, which prevents incoming scents from being blown away.
Dogs can get a sunburn on their nose.
BEWARE OF DOG
U.S. Navy Seal dogs wear protective vests that cost $20,000 and sport video cameras, microphones, and speakers, so that the dogâs handlers can give it commands remotelyâeven to kill.
Approximately 92 percent of fatal dog attacks involve male dogs, and 94 percent of those dogs were not neutered.
Dog bites accounted for one-third of all homeowner insurance policy claims paid out in 2011.
PAMPERED PETS
In the United States, 53 percent of dogs and 55 percent of cats are overweight; 21 percent of dogs and 25 percent of cats are obese. These weight issues shorten the animalsâ lives by an average of 2.5 years.
UPON FURTHER REVIEW
Bulls cannot see the color red.
Lemmings do not intentionally commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs. They have, however, been seen to run over the edge of a precipice in unfamiliar territory. The suicide myth was promoted by the 1958 Disney nature documentary
White Wilderness
, where lemmings were pushed into a river by a rotating platform installed by the film crew.
ESCAPE ARTISTS
Rabbits go into a trance when placed on their back. This is a survival instinct to fool a predator into thinking they are dead, allowing them to escape.
The African spiny mouse has the unique ability to shed large amounts of its skin to escape a predator. Even more amazing is the fact that it can then regrow the lost skin perfectly with no scarring, which no other mammal can do.
The African crested rat chews on poison tree bark and then spits the saliva onto its fur, where special porous hairs absorb the poison spit. This protects the little guys from being eaten by predators.
STEWED SHREWS
The Malaysian pen-tailed shrew nightly drinks the equivalent of nine glasses of wine in the form of a naturally occurring fermented nectar.
BY A WHISKER
The whiskers on a harbor seal are known as âvibrissae.â
Moose with antlers have much improved hearing. The antlers act like a giant hearing aid, functioning like a parabolic reflector to collect and direct sound waves to the mooseâs ears.
Along with giant pandas, most species of mole have six digits per leg.
The male platypus produces a venom cocktail in its ankle spurs that has eighty types of toxins that can incapacitate a human.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
S tar P ower
PACKINâ HEAT
The following celebrities are gun owners: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Howard Stern, Joe Perry, Donald Trump, Eric Clapton, Christian Slater, James Earl Jones, and, of course, Clint Eastwood.
NAME THAT STAR
Stevie Wonderâs given name is Stevland Hardaway Morris.
Wolfgang Puckâs real name is Wolfgang Johannes Topfschnig.
Shakiraâs real name is Isabel Mebarak Ripoll.
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky.
Reese Witherspoon named her son Tennessee.
Robert Downey
⢠The Xoloitzcuintli, or âshow low,â formerly known as the Mexican hairless, which is the national dog of Mexico
The top eight most expensive dog breeds are:
⢠Pembroke Welsh corgi: $1,000
⢠Saluki: $2,500
⢠Chow Chow: between $1,000 and $8,500
⢠Egyptian pharaoh hound: between $2,500 and $6,500
⢠Löwchen: between $5,000 and $8,000
⢠Canadian Eskimo dog: $7,000
⢠Old English bulldog: $9,000
⢠Tibetan mastiff: between $2,000 and $7,000. Big Splash, or âHong Dong,â is an exceptional red Tibetan mastiff that sold for $1.6 million to a Chinese coal baron in 2012, a world record price for any dog. The breed, which weighs 180 pounds, is highly priced because these dogs are considered to be pure âChineseâ and rarely found outside Tibet. Genghis Khan and Buddha are believed to have kept them. Matings with this dog go for about $100,000 a pop.
BY A NOSE
The nose of a dog has a flap in the nostrils that deflects exhaled air to the sides, which prevents incoming scents from being blown away.
Dogs can get a sunburn on their nose.
BEWARE OF DOG
U.S. Navy Seal dogs wear protective vests that cost $20,000 and sport video cameras, microphones, and speakers, so that the dogâs handlers can give it commands remotelyâeven to kill.
Approximately 92 percent of fatal dog attacks involve male dogs, and 94 percent of those dogs were not neutered.
Dog bites accounted for one-third of all homeowner insurance policy claims paid out in 2011.
PAMPERED PETS
In the United States, 53 percent of dogs and 55 percent of cats are overweight; 21 percent of dogs and 25 percent of cats are obese. These weight issues shorten the animalsâ lives by an average of 2.5 years.
UPON FURTHER REVIEW
Bulls cannot see the color red.
Lemmings do not intentionally commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs. They have, however, been seen to run over the edge of a precipice in unfamiliar territory. The suicide myth was promoted by the 1958 Disney nature documentary
White Wilderness
, where lemmings were pushed into a river by a rotating platform installed by the film crew.
ESCAPE ARTISTS
Rabbits go into a trance when placed on their back. This is a survival instinct to fool a predator into thinking they are dead, allowing them to escape.
The African spiny mouse has the unique ability to shed large amounts of its skin to escape a predator. Even more amazing is the fact that it can then regrow the lost skin perfectly with no scarring, which no other mammal can do.
The African crested rat chews on poison tree bark and then spits the saliva onto its fur, where special porous hairs absorb the poison spit. This protects the little guys from being eaten by predators.
STEWED SHREWS
The Malaysian pen-tailed shrew nightly drinks the equivalent of nine glasses of wine in the form of a naturally occurring fermented nectar.
BY A WHISKER
The whiskers on a harbor seal are known as âvibrissae.â
Moose with antlers have much improved hearing. The antlers act like a giant hearing aid, functioning like a parabolic reflector to collect and direct sound waves to the mooseâs ears.
Along with giant pandas, most species of mole have six digits per leg.
The male platypus produces a venom cocktail in its ankle spurs that has eighty types of toxins that can incapacitate a human.
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
S tar P ower
PACKINâ HEAT
The following celebrities are gun owners: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Howard Stern, Joe Perry, Donald Trump, Eric Clapton, Christian Slater, James Earl Jones, and, of course, Clint Eastwood.
NAME THAT STAR
Stevie Wonderâs given name is Stevland Hardaway Morris.
Wolfgang Puckâs real name is Wolfgang Johannes Topfschnig.
Shakiraâs real name is Isabel Mebarak Ripoll.
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky.
Reese Witherspoon named her son Tennessee.
Robert Downey
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