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| 1) Dinosaurs were among the most sophisticated animals that ever lived on Earth. They survived for nearly 150 million years--75 times longer than humans have now lived on Earth. |
| 2) It seems to biologists that, unlike their humpback whale relatives whose underwater song evolves from year to year, killer whales retain individual dialects unchanged over long periods, possibly even for life. |
| 3) Disk-winged bats of Latin America have adhesive disks on both wings and feet that enable them to live in unfurling banana leaves (or even walk up a window pane!). |
| 4) It takes 11 dump-truck loads of wood to make a proper funeral pyre for a full-size elephant. |
| 5) It takes 24 hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck its way out of its shell. |
| So what are YOU scared of? |
| Fear of being touched? Then you, my friend, are Haptephobic, and your fear is Haptephobia! - Gary |
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