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  • Domestic cats usually weight around 4 kilograms (8 lb 13 oz) to 5 kilograms (11 lb 0 oz).
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  • The heaviest domestic cat on record is 21.297 kilograms (46 lb 15.2 oz).
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  • Cats can be lethal hunters and very sneaky, when they walk their back paws step almost exactly in the same place as the front paws did beforehand, this keeps noise to a minimum and limits visible tracks.

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  • Cats have powerful night vision, allowing them to see at light levels six times lower than what a human needs in order to see.
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  • Cats also have excellent hearing and a powerful sense of smell.
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  • Older cats can at times act aggressively towards kittens.

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  • Domestic cats love to play, this is especially true with kittens who love to chase toys and play fight. Play fighting among kittens may be a way for them to practice and learn skills for hunting and fighting.
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  • On average cats live for around 12 to 15 years.

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  • Cats spend a large amount of time licking their coats to keep them clean.
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  • Feral cats are often seen as pests and threats to native animals.
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  • Sharks do not have a single bone in their bodies. Instead they have a skeleton made up of cartilage; the same type of tough, flexible tissue that makes up human ears and noses.​

  • Some sharks remain on the move for their entire lives. This forces water over their gills, delivering oxygen to the blood stream. If the shark stops moving then it will suffocate and die.
 
  • Sharks have outstanding hearing. They can hear a fish thrashing in the water from as far as 500 metres away!

  • If a shark was put into a large swimming pool, it would be able to smell a single drop of blood in the water.
 
  • Although most species of shark are less than one metre long, there are some species such as the whale shark, which can be 14 metres long.

  • A pup (baby shark) is born ready to take care of itself. The mother shark leaves the pup to fend for itself and the pup usually makes a fast get away before the mother tries to eat it!
 
  • Not all species of shark give birth to live pups. Some species lay the egg case on the ocean floor and the pup hatches later on its own.

  • Great whites are the deadliest shark in the ocean. These powerful predators can race through the water at 30 km per hour.
 
  • Unlike other species of shark, the great white is warm-blooded. Although the great white does not keep a constant body temperature, it needs to eat a lot of meat in order to be able to regulate its temperature.

  • A shark always has a row of smaller teeth developing behind its front teeth. Eventually the smaller teeth move forward, like a conveyor belt, and the front teeth fall out.
 
  • Lions are the second largest big cat species in the world (behind tigers).
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  • The average male lion weighs around 180 kg (400 lb) while the average female lion weighs around 130 kg (290 lb).

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  • The heaviest lion on record weighed an amazing 375 kg (826 lb).
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  • Lions can reach speeds of up to 81 kph (50 mph) but only in short bursts because of a lack of stamina.

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  • The roar of a lion can be heard from 8 kilometers (5.0 miles) away.
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  • Most lions found in the wild live in southern and eastern parts of Africa.

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  • Lions are very social compared to other cat species, often living in prides that feature females, offspring and a few adult males.
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  • Male lions are easy to recognize thanks to their distinctive manes. Males with darker manes are more likely to attract female lions (lionesses).

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  • Lions are the national animal of Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, Ethiopia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Singapore.
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  • Lions in the wild live for around 12 years.

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  • When lions breed with tigers the resulting hybrids are known as ligers and tigons. There are also lion and leopard hybrids known as leopons and lion and jaguar hybrids known as jaglions.
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  • Lionesses are better hunters than males and do most of the hunting for a pride.
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  • In the wild, lions rest for around 20 hours a day.

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Cows can be noticed freely roaming around in the Streets of our Metropolitan
and other major cities. Cows are regarded as a Sacred Animal and one can notice
a Tilak on its forehead, a holy symbol of Hindus. Further Cows are defined as one
of humankind's Seven Mothers and Pujas are performed to them respecting them
as Go-Matha. There are many 'Go-Salas' in India. Its milk is consumed from children
to old aged people irrespective of the age and it is a nourishment item.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
 
  • A frog is an amphibian. They lay their eggs in water. The eggs hatch into a tadpole which lives in water until it metamorphoses into an adult frog.​

  • Tadpoles look more like fish than frogs, they have long finned tails and breathe through gills.
 
  • An amphibian can live both on land and in water.

  • Although frogs live on land their habitat must be near swamps, ponds or in a damp place. This is because they will die if their skin dries out.
 
nstead of drinking water, frogs soak it into their body through their skin.
  • Frogs breathe through their nostrils while also absorbing about half the air they need through their skin.
 
  • Frogs use their sticky, muscular tongue to catch and swallow food. Unlike humans, their tongue is not attached to the back of its mouth. Instead it is attached to the front, enabling the frog to stick its tongue out much further.

  • The common pond frog is ready to breed when it is only three years old.
 
  • Frogs in the wild face many dangers and are lucky to survive several years. In captivity however, frogs can live for much longer.

  • Frogs can see forwards, sideways and upwards all at the same time. They never close their eyes, even when they sleep.

  • Remarkably, frogs actually use their eyes to help them swallow food. When the frog blinks, its eyeballs are pushed downwards creating a bulge in the roof of its mouth. This bulge squeezes the food inside the frog's mouth down the back of its throat.
 
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