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8.24.09- Added another affie, will add an animal tomorrow! 8.23.09- I got my review from Cookie Reviews, 10/10! Thank you, thank you, thank you! ^^
8.20.09- I have been very busy with my review site, Kingdom Reviews, and not many people submitted animals. I am adding the walrus today!
8.07.09- I've been caught up in Mysims Kingdom. Made a new review site! 8.05.09- Added a new lister, learning more about pixel art!
8.03.09- More affies added! I started pixeling, but I'm so bad at starting sites, so we'll see about that!
8.02.09- I added a fan art section, added more listers and affiliates, decided I will make a pixel site, not directory. Still working on it! Requested to be reviewed by Weewoo Reviews.
8.01.09- I'm back! I'd love to hear your comments and cool creatures! I've started working on creating a directory, let's see how that goes!
7.28.09- Edited a few affies; please neomail all your interesting animals to me! I still need that one animal neomailed a few days back, I accidentally deleted the neomail, but I know its from one of my affies so please get back to me!
7.26.09*- If you have submitted a new animal, I accidentally deleted your neomail so please resend your animal asap!
7.26.09- Added all new affiliates today, sorry for wait!
7.23.09- On vacation, I will respond ASAP to all neomails or replies, and I'll add all new affies and listers when I get back, or have the chance. Thank you so much!
7.22.09- Grand Opening!

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facts

-Some lions mate 50 times a day.
-Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backwards.
-Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
-All polar bears are left-handed.
-Cats are the only animals who can't 'float' in space.
-It takes a sloth 15 minutes to cross a 4-lane street.
-A polarbear's skin is black.
-The study of horses is 'hippology'.
-The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.
-Elephants are the only animals with four knees.
-A headless cockroach can survive for a couple of weeks. Its life would finally end due to starvation!
-No dentist for this creature! Crocodiles, through their life grow new teeth that replace the old set!
-A crocodile can never stick its tongue out of its mouth.
-Gaggle is a group of geese waddling on the ground. And the same group up in the air would be renamed skein.
-On an average, a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times, per minute.
-A standing 4-foot child can fit into the open of a hippopotamus.
-A coin is heavier than a hummingbird!
-It would take just one night for a mole to dig a tunnel measuring 300 feet in length.
-The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch.
-Recycling! A housefly regurgitates the food it eats and then eats it again!
-An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eye.
-The taste buds of a butterfly are in its feet.
-Place a black light over a cat's urine and watch it glow!
-Dogs and cats are either right or left-pawed!
-While human fingerprints are a means of their identification; the nose prints are a means of identifying dogs.
-A chicken can fly for more than 13 seconds at a stretch.
-The butterfly was originally known as the 'flutterby'.
-The donkey's eye placement helps it see all its four feet at a time.
-All the termites of the world outweigh the human beings of the world. The ratio is 10:1!
-The chow is the only dog that does not have a pink tongue.

panda

How can we resist? The probably more well known of all the animals listed, and our mascot, we must also show this beloved animal. The Giant Panda has a diet composed of 99% bamboo. There are 25 species of bamboo that are eaten by pandas in the wild. Males can weigh up to 330 lbs and females up to 250 lbs. China has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27 living outside the country. It also estimated that around 1,590 pandas are currently living in the wild. However, a 2006 study, via DNA analysis, estimated that there might be as many as 2,000 to 3,000 Giant Pandas in the wild. Though reports show that the numbers of wild pandas are on the rise, the International Union for Conservation of Nature believes there is not enough certainty to remove the Giant Panda from the endangered animal list.

kakapo

This is not only the rarest, but the strangest parrot in the world. Imagine a rather portly nocturnal bird that never flies, preferring to hike through hilly forest for miles every night. It weighs in as the heaviest parrot in the world at 8 pounds. Imagine this and you have the very real (but virtually extinct) kakapo. A resident of New Zealand, which is home to a number of rare birds, there are only 62 kakapos remaining on earth. (Bonus fact: New Zealand is full of unusual creatures. It originally had no native land mammals, so its many unique birds evolved in unusual ways – which unfortunately has made them very vulnerable to mammals that were brought in during European colonization.)

kiwi

Everyone knows the beloved endangered kiwi is a flightless bird. As if to make up for its winged impotence, the kiwi is actually a violent, temperamental little bird. But its quirks don't stop there. The only bird with whiskers is also distinctly dog-like in its ability to sniff out food and threats. In fact, it has the most highly developed sense of smell of any bird, lifting its "nose" (beak) into the breeze to determine its surroundings, just like a dog would. That's probably because kiwis are also the only bird to have prominent nostrils. Contrary to popular belief, the kiwi does have wings, but they are tiny and difficult to detect under the loose, fluffy, hair-like feathers. The kiwi has many other unusual characteristics: the eggs are relatively huge, being one-fifth the bird's weight; kiwi pairs mate for life – as long as 30 years – but tend to have feisty relationships; the females are larger and more dominant than the males. In fact, daddy kiwis incubate the young while mom hunts – for an unheard-of 80 days, no less. Did you know that kiwis are the smallest ratites on earth? Other ratites include ostrich and emu.

bumblebee bat

Winning the cutest bat ever award is the Bumblebee bat, which at its largest measures 1 inch. These tiny mammals hover like hummingbirds and like all bats prefer caves and love feasting on insects. They can easily perch on the tip of your thumb. This tiny bat dwells in Thailand and is considered one of the 12 most endangered species. There are fewer than 200 remaining.

hooded seal

Males of this arctic seal species have both an inflatable skull hood and nasal balloon. When aroused, angered or simply showing off, male hooded seals can inflate their sacs that are a foot or more in diameter. The nasal balloon can be inflated through one or both nostrils and is bright red. Unfortunately, due to global warming affecting the arctic environment, hooded seals are now considered by many scientists to be endangered.

Monito Del Monte

The "little monkey of the mountain" of South America is not a monkey, but rather a marsupial, thought to have arrived from Australia long ago. It's tiny – only about 5″ full grown. They are nocturnal and carnivorous, and famous (well, among scientists) for their unusual tail, which can store enough fat to make this little pipsqueak double in size. This allows them to go for long periods without food. Sadly, the always-prepared monito del monte is in danger of extinction.

duck-billed platypus

It's venomous. It's got a duck's bill, and otter's feet and a mammal's body. Oh, and it lays eggs. No wonder Western naturalists were confused by the platypus when it was first introduced. The platypus, along with the echidna, is a monotreme (egg-laying mammal). It's native to Australia and Tasmania where it was hunted to near-extinction during the 1800s for its fur, but has been protected since the turn of the 20th century. Thought officially a protected species, the platypus is at risk because of poaching.

purple frog

The purple frog is really purple. But its brilliant hue is not the strange thing about it. The purple frog spends much of the year living 13 feet below ground. Also called the pignose for its snubbed nose, this western Indian-dwelling frog was only discovered in 2003, in Kerala. Locals had known about the purple frog for years, but scientists were skeptical. Part of the reason purple frogs were difficult to find was simply due to the fact that they only come up for air for two weeks during monsoon season in order to mate.

sumatran rabbit

That's not really its name; it doesn't have one. Meet the rarest rabbit in the world, which has only been seen twice in the last century at least. Locals didn't even know it existed. The "Sumatran rabbit" is thought to be nearly extinct. (Note: there are very few available images of this incredibly rare animal, and most are grainy at best)

sloth

The sloth belongs to the edentate family, which also includes anteaters, armadillos, and echidnas. Most edentates are either threatened or endangered species. There are a number of unusual facts about the sloth. All sloths have three toes, but "two-toed" sloths only have 2 claws. Sloths often hunt in packs. They can actually move quickly and will slash with their large claws – the slow-moving behavior is to avoid predators like hawks. They actually hang most of their lives. Sloths typically have over 600 species of bacteria, plants and animals living on them at any given time, and will often feed on themselves when they are hungry. (Algae is the main snack.) Famously, these unusual creatures can rotate their heads 270 degrees. Lore has it that sloths adore beer and are able to "hold their liquor" amazingly well.

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