What is the world's largest fish?
The harmless whale shark holds the title of largest fish, with the record being a 59 footer captured in Thailand in 1919.
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Healthy as a horse... which horse?
"Even someone who doesn't know much about horses can learn a lot about equine health just by watching the post parade from the stable to the gates during the May 6 Kentucky Derby, says an equine veterinarian at Purdue University."
A healthy horse has a resting heart rate, of 40-45 beats per minute.
The respiratory rate of an adult horse at rest is 8-16 breaths per minute.
A horse's body temperature is between 98 and 101 degrees.
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Fact about the prairie dog language
Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.
Exploding ant fact
There is an ant in Brazil that has a gland which causes the ant to explode like a bomb, spraying a sticky toxic
goo on everybody nearby. Now that's some hard core biology!