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 animal trivia, uncommon facts about animals - Trivial Trivia Collections
Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time.
Chameleons can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.
The chameleon will most often change between green, brown and gray, which coincidently, often matches the background colors of their habitat.
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 Bradypodion oxyrhinum profile
A small chameleon from the Uluguru and Udzungwa (Uzungwe) Mountains of Tanzania (1400-1900 m), it was first distinguished from the closely related B.
They are very shy chameleons, so heavy foliage and individual caging is crucial.
As with many chameleons, they accept somewhat warmer temperatures outdoors than indoors.
www.adcham.com /html/taxonomy/species/boxyrhinum.html   (344 words)

  
 The Fond du Lac Humane Society: "Friends For Life"
Of these, some 45% kissed them on the nose, 19% on the neck, 7% on the back, 5% on the stomach and 2% on the legs.
The male Californian sea-otter grips the nose of the female with his teeth during mating.
Spiders have noses on their feet that can pick up the odours of possible prey, predators, or mates.
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 The Internet ClubHouse - Fun Facts About Animals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.
They are actually tearing off the ragged edges of the sheaths of their talons to expose the new sharp ones beneath.
Though human noses have an impressive 5 million olfactory cells with which to smell, sheepdogs have 220 million, enabling them to smell 44 times better than man.
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The Chameleon, who had a dramatic "death" in Paul Jenkins’ chilling Webspinners 10-11 by hurtling himself off a bridge after faking MJ's kidnapping, inexplicably shows up physically sound, but cackling madly in a lunatic asylum and Spidey doesn't bat an eye.
Admittedly, villains "die" and reappear all the time, yet the Chameleon didn't "die" in just one of those unoriginal explosions where no body was recovered in a run of the mill tale - but suffered a dramatic death in a particularly strong story that shouldn't have been ignored.
Sharp eyed Spidey fans will see the name pop up every now and then as an in-joke, most notably in the What If issue that had Spidey marrying the Black Cat - and as a way of keeping their identities obscured - he is married as "Peter Palmer."
www.spideykicksbutt.com /SpiderMan101/SpiderMan101Part6.html   (12951 words)

  
 Bradypodion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bradypodion (meaning "slow-footed") is one of four genera of chameleons within the subfamily of Chamaeleoninae, "true" or "typical chameleons".
They are native to southeastern Africa, and are sometimes collectively called South African dwarf chameleons.
This page was last modified 13:42, 4 November 2005.
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 Tékumel :: The World of the Petal Throne
These beige or brownish snake-like creatures are covered from their skulls, with sharp little rodent-like faces, large with protective scale armor.
Their face has a beak-like snout filled with sharp teeth, and they have a crest of glittering spines that stands erect when they are agitated.
They have a long tail, which is not prehensile, and their heads are long-snouted, triangular in shape (somewhat resembling a moose), with the brain-case at the back, two big eyes set wide apart on each side of the head, and a moist, mobile nose.
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 The Gargoyles Bible- season 1
Now this may sound scientifically improbable, but consider the chameleon or the electric eel; both can accomplish miracles of nature, objectively as remarkable as turning into stone.
All gargoyles have sharp teeth and powerful claws capable of gouging into stone and even metal.
His visage in battle ' with glowing eyes and sharp teeth, is terrible to behold.
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A foot was determined by a pace, the distance from the tip of the nose to the outstretched fingers is roughly a yard, and horse heights are still measured by hands?the width of the palm and closed thumb is about four inches.
The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified is to poke someone's eye out.
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
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 Trivia Time! [Archive] - Motorcycle Philippines
They are actually tearing off the ragged edges of the sheaths of their talons to expose the new sharp ones beneath.Cats have a third eyelid called a haw and you will probably only see it when kitty isn't feeling well.
What they have as identifying marks are the prints on their noses.
Maybe the Comelec should also implement that indelible ink be put on voter's noses instead of on their fingernails para mas obvious sa iba kung sino na ang nakapag-vote.
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 Flowers of Cyprus
But of the citrus fruit there is a glut, as there has been every year since the trade embargo was imposed on Northern Cyprus, and many fruits, especially in Guzelyurt - the main fruit produing region - are destined to fall to the ground and be left to rot.
There are three basic types of orange tree : wild orange which tends to be very bitter but is useful for making marmalade, an orange that is refered to here as 'mandarin' which is a little sharp, and a sweet orange.
If you are very sharp eyed you may spot a chameleon, camouflaged to the colour of whatever he might happen to be sitting on, eyeing you back with his swivelling eyes.
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 Campbell Corner - Poetry, Myth, and Philosophy
She retains fast in mind these old sagas--which talent, as she says, is not granted to everyone; for there be many that cannot keep in their heads anything at all.
They are alert, sharp nosed, sensitive nostriled, and immediately interest the eye.
It changes, like a chameleon; puts on the colors of its background; lives and shapes itself to the requirements of the moment.
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 The Secrets of the Mojave - Branton (Page 7)
There is even the possibility presented by some accounts, however strange as this may seem, that the sauroids or reptilians themselves have their own chameleon-like (human-'appearing') "representatives" walking among us, infiltrating our society, for the most part unknown for their true nature.
We have mentioned a few cases previously, however there is another account of a 'chameleon' entity which may have attempted to infiltrate the Pentagon itself, in an effort to seize information about U.S. plans for 'Star Wars' or SDI technology.
The unconfirmed account alleged that such a creature was in fact apprehended after a 'contact lense' it was wearing, while posing as a high military officer, fell out, revealing a strange eye-arrangement and a verticaly-slit pupil.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Aurora/4519/mojave7.html   (9497 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : The Last Place In Yemen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
By seven the next morning we were high in the uplands under a lowering sky on the way to Shilhal.
The going was hard, over sharp rocks dotted with tiny alpine flowers.
Every so often we had to cross low walls of misshapen lichen-covered stones that were clearly very old: some authorities have taken them to be the ancient boundaries of incense plantations, but in fact they marked out claims allotted by the sultan for the harvesting of aloes.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199905/the.last.place.in.yemen.htm   (5684 words)

  
 Animal Trivia Pet Factory American Beefhide Rawhide Manufacturer Dog Chews
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but other monkeys can't.
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 FrogandFox.com
The arch is able to get so high because the cat's spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together.
Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
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 LA Weekly: Film: You Don't Know Jack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03)
When Hollywood makes comedies about the so-called fly-over states, it nearly always turns the locals into cartoons (think of Sweet Home Alabama), but while Taylor and Payne aren't shy about laughing at Midwesterners, they view them with affection.
What may look like condescension is a sharp awareness of social class — of how Reese Witherspoon's hustling in Election is a working-class response to Chris Klein's upper-middle-class sense of entitlement.
In About Schmidt, such social observations grow even more expansive.
www.laweekly.com /ink/03/04/film-powers.php   (1912 words)

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