Wild Medicine

Chimpanzees get rid of parasites by using the leaves of sunflowers and rolling it around in their month then swallowing it. They don't like the taste of it because they make faces when they eat it but they apparently know the medicinal effects of the leaves.

African Elephants risk their lives to get into caves in Mount Elgon (volcano) to chew the rocks, which contain many minerals. The sodium is essential for their health.

Capuchin Monkeys in Costa Rica uses a type of chilli to clean themselves, which removes all sort of insects and acts as a painkiller to insect bites

Rats can't throw up

Creature Feature- Babies

ZEBRAS- born with brown stripes

PORCUPINES - born with soft quills and harden an hour after birth

CAMELS - born without humps

EMPEROR PENGUINS - born brown

POLAR BEARS - weigh about one pound

GIANT PANDA - born the size of a stick of butter

KANGAROO - born smaller than your finger

FROGS - born with gills

ELEPHANTS - babies suck their trunks like human babies suck their fingers

WORLD RECORDS

The Heaviest Dog- Zorba is an English Mastiff from London who weighed 343 pounds

The tallest dog. Harlequin is a Great Dane who is 42.2 inches and 7 feet tall on his hind legs

Teeny Tiny. Brandy is a Chihuahua who was 6 inches in length.

Miniscule. Sylvia is a Yorkshire Terrier, 2.5 inches tall and merely 4 pounds, with an extremely short life span of 2 years.

Longlivity. Bluey was an Australian dog who lived for 29 years and 5 months.

Creature Feature

Pickiest Eater - The Australian koala eats ONLY eucalyptus leaves. And it sorts through 500 species of eucalyptus to find one of the 36 types that it likes. And i thought i was picky!

Biggest Farter - The regular old farm cow blasts out more than 105 pounds of methane a year!

Fastest Runner - The cheetah reaches a top speed of 70 miles an hour!

Slowest Mover - The three toed sloth of South America has a land speed of 6-8 feet a minute

Biggest Sleepyhead - The koala sleeps for 22 hours a day. The sloth sleeps for 20 hours.

Smallest Mammal - The Kitti's hog-nosed bat weighs 0.07 ounces (like a peanut)

Creature Feature

Group of GIRAFFES - "tower"
Group of TIGERS - "ambush"
Group of ZEBRAS - "dazzle"
Group of SQUIRRELS - "scurry"
Group of HIPPOS - "bloat"
Group of OTTERS - "romp"
Group of RHINOS - "crash"
Group of APES - "shrewdness"

Meat IS Murder

I won't criticise meat-eaters. Although i'm an animal rights activist, i am anaemic and so i have to eat red meat and eggs to keep my blood count up.

Why are vegetarians vegetarians? They probably, understand that meat is eating "murder", not just the way they are killed. Restaurants and chains may show how nicely they treat the animals but reality is, those animals are kept in crowded and dirty conditions in slaughterhouses and factory farms. They are abused. mistreated. It should be illegal! But again..money drives everything doesn't it. These heinous deeds do not trigger the consciences of people. how can they turn away?

Canine Commandments