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Unicorn
A unicorn (from Latin unus ‘one’ and cornu ‘horn’) is a mythological creature often used in fantasy stories and novels.Though the modern popular image of the unicorn is sometimes that of a horse differing only in the horn on its forehead, the traditional unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion’s tail, and cloven hooves - these distinguish it from a horse. Marianna Mayer has observed (The Unicorn and the Lake), “The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. In even the earliest references he is fierce yet good, selfless yet solitary, but always mysteriously beautiful. He could be captured only by unfair means, and his single horn was said to neutralize poison.”
There are thousands of storys about these mythical animals.

The Mandrill is one of the largest monkeys it got its name cause it can stand on two legs for a short moment in time.

Its name Mandrill means Man-Ape and like all baboons its famous for its red bottom.

The Man-Ape is one of the most ferocious Monkeys/ Baboons on the planet it has over 24 teeth mostly made for ripping and chewing meats.

Its arm strength is more powerful then any average human it has a long tail which it uses to escape and capture prey in the trees.

The Baboon has several common enemies such as the Hawk, Leopard, Alligators and other Baboons.

Silver Fish feed on Glue, Hair,Dandruff and Paper and in Very Rare cases Leather.

They are sometimes found in the nests of Ants working with there colliney even though they look disgusting there backs are covered in a thin skin that shins as Scales.

Most people kill these insect seeing them as pest to the common house, because they damige Books and Leather ware. But these critters have done us all a very important job, These Beasts as some would call it also feed on Molds.

They have several preditors Birds, Centipiedes, Earwigs and some times Spiders.

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The Hippopotamus also known as Hippo is a Large purple/brown four legged mammal that feeds on shrubs and grass near the Water where they live together.

Hippopotamus also is known as a River Horse in Greek, The Hippo even though its has short stubby legs and weigh more then a Land rover they can easily outrun a average human.

They are the Average size as a Rhino/ Rhinoceros.

Hippos have four large caineins in the front of therre mouth even though they are Vegitarins they use less large and brutal teeth to warn off preditors and to battle one another for a mate.

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The Giant Colossal Squid has the largest known eyes on the Planet earth, its eyes can come up to 27 centimeters there lenses are a s big as a Large Orange
They are rare and peaceful Creatures feeding on Crustaceans on the bottom of the ocean floor, they are the biggest of all the Squids and Many of these Squids die due to injuries from other animals such as the Sperm whale or Sharks which mistake it for food squids tentacles can grow back in a matter of 2 months. The Squid is a fast flexible sea creature that has a sharp beak under neath it long Tentacles, One Tentacle are the same size as a Average Human. It is thought to have enormous strength, with swiveling hooks mounted at its tentacle ends to snare prey. Further up the tentacles, fixed hooks with three razor points help it hold onto large prey as they are sliced into thumb-sized pieces for swallowing

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The pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella Pygmaea) of upper Amazon Basin and lesser mouse-lemur (Microcebus murinus) of Madagascar are of comparable length to the shrew but heavier, weighing 50-75g 1.8-2.6oz and 45-80g 1.6-2.8oz respectively. The pygmy marmoset is also the smallest monkey.

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Stegosaurus (”plated lizard”), which lived about 150 million years ago, had a brain weighing only 2.5 oz. - 0.00002% of its computed body weight of 3.25 tons. This compares with a percentage of 0.0006 for an elephant and 1.88 for a human. It is possible that the brains of some sauropods were proportionately even smaller. The picture is from the movie The Lost Word: Jurassic Park (USA, 1997).

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The oldest intact mammoth on record was found by a group of French scientists in Siberia, Russia, in Oct. 1999. The animal is estimated to be 23,000 years old, and has tusks weighing 143 lbs. each. The objective of the expedition, which was sponsored by the Discovery Channel, was to find DNA from this extinct species to perform cloning experiments.

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The fastest eater amongst mammals is the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Research published in February 2005 by Dr Kenneth Catania (USA) at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA, recorded an average ‘handling time’ of 230 milliseconds with the fastest time being 120 milliseconds.

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The oldest living kinkajou (Potos flavus) in captivity is Huggy Bear, who turned 27 years 6 months old in January 2004 and belongs to Sonja Pedersen (USA) of Holiday, Florida, USA.

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In proportion to their size the strongest animals are the LARGER BEETLES of the family SCARABAEIDAE, which are found mainly in tropics. In tests carried out on a rhinoceros beetle of the family Dynastinae, it was found that it could support 850 times its own weight on its back (cf. 25 per cent of its body weight for an elephant).

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