Manatees also known as sea cows have been on the edge of extinction for over 70 years, they were once hunted by people for there meat but since this idea have been discarded and now manatees are protected by the several countries.
Living in warm shallow waters they feed on plankton and seaweed on the sea bed unfortunately the manatees kept getting caught in lost sea nets.
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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Animals moved from the sea to the land 414 million years ago, according to discoveries made in 1990 near Ludlow, shrops. The first land animals include two kinds of CENTIPEDE and a TINY SPIDER found among plant debris, suggesting that life moved on to land much earlier than previously thought.
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On October the 31st 2005, 68 jersey cows shielding under a tree at Warwicks marks dairy farm near Dorrigo, were killed by a SINGLE lighting bolt!
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The largest land gastropod is the African giant snail Achatina achatina. The biggest specimen on record was 15.5 in. long from snout to tail and weighed exactly 2 lbs. named Gee Geronimo, it was owned by Christopher Hudson of Hove, E. Sussex, England.
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The Cassowary is the most dangrous bird in the world living in New Guinea as well as queenslands and Australlia and can grow up to 2m tall.
On each foot three large sharp toes are placed the middle having a quite deadly 12cm long spike its kicks could rip open a persons stomach and cause death.
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