Article: Animal Crackers!

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Daily Mail (London)
Article date:
August 10, 2001
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Byline: ANNABEL VENNING

Eating and drinking * WHEN feeling nervous, some octopuses will eat their own tentacles which then grow back later.

* A GIRAFFE can last longer without water than a camel.

* THE duckbill platypus of Australia can keep more than 600 worms in its cheek pouches.

* A CROCODILE has so much acid in its stomach that it can digest steel.

* A SHREW eats its own weight in food every three hours.

* IT TAKES 40 minutes to hardboil an ostrich egg.

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