Tuesday 24 April 2007 7 mammal facts

  1. Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly. With 985 species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species.
  2. There is a vine in Madagascar that is pollinated exclusively by lemurs.
  3. Anteaters are the only mammals to have no teeth.
  4. A female kangaroo can produce 2 different kinds of milk at the same time when she is suckling youngsters of different ages.
  5. Shrews have such a fast metabolism they have to eat 1.3 times their own weight in food everyday.
  6. Naked mole rats and Siberian hamsters can navigate by sensing the earth's magnetic field.
  7. The top two rows of a cat's whiskers can move independently of the lower two rows.

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