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Animal Facts ... in no particular order. |
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| The Frilled Neck Lizard was pictured on Australia's two cent coin. The coins are no longer in circulation | ||
| Fairy Penguins live for an average of seven years. | ||
| The Emu is the world's third largest bird. The Ostrich and the Cassowary take the top positions. | ||
| The nest of an Emu can be up to 1.5 metres wide! | ||
| The Emu can run at speeds up to 45 km/hr! | ||
| The temperature of the saltwater crocodile's egg will determine the sex of the new born crocodile. | ||
| Koalas can make an extremely loud and agressive growling noise. | ||
| Shark's need to swim, or they will sink! | ||
| A mother dingo regurgitates food for her puppies. | ||
| Platypuses can consume their own body weight in food in a 24 hour period! | ||
| The male platypus has venom strong enough to can kill a small dog, or cause excruciating pain among humans. | ||
| Quokka's recycle a small amount of their bodies waste products. | ||
| The box jellyfish is responsible for more deaths in Australian than Snakes, Sharks and Salt Water Crocodiles. | ||
| The Irukandji jellyfish is only 2.5 centimetres in diameter, but can cause death to humans within days. | ||
| The venom of a stonefish can kill a human in two hours. | ||
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