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16-02-2007, 10:23 PM
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Badgers bury their dead, apparently with some ceremony and display of grief.
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16-02-2007, 10:25 PM
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If you ate the liver from a polar bear, you would die of iodine poisoning.
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16-02-2007, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher  If you ate the liver from a polar bear, you would die of iodine poisoning. | Monkies can't play golf because the limited use of their thumb prevents them from employing the Vardon grip |
16-02-2007, 10:46 PM
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Or football, because they don't understand the offside rule. (I do!  )
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16-02-2007, 10:52 PM
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Some wild cats are not allowed play cards because they are cheatahs  |
16-02-2007, 11:13 PM
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During the Great Plague of 1665, people used to strap live chickens with their back ends (hope that is ok for the census!) against the buboids as a cure. (But there is a naturally occuring antibiotic in a chicken's digestive tract, so there may have been some benefit.)
Well, I suppose there was no telly!
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16-02-2007, 11:39 PM
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Apparently there are no snakes in Ireland, because St. Patrick banished them all.
Talking of St. Patrick's Night, we've got a gig in the Neptune at Whitstable, if any of you are near by! Irish, Cajun, and Rock'n Roll!
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16-02-2007, 11:42 PM
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Rabbits and Cows still use their appendixes to digest cellulose, whereas it passes through humans untouched. (as roughage.)
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17-02-2007, 06:41 AM
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Long-tailed tits make a round nest, about the size of a tennis ball, out of spiders web silk and mosses. As the chicks grow inside the nest, the nest expands too!
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17-02-2007, 06:46 AM
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Polar bears and cats is the only unbiodegradable poo in the world.
Fancy Badgers bury their dead.
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17-02-2007, 08:48 AM
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Earthworm dung contains five times more nitrogen, seven times more phosphorus, eleven times more potassium, and a thousand times more beneficial bacteria than the material the earthworm initially ate.
The world’s largest earthworm, found in South Africa, was twenty-two feet long; the Australian Gippsland earthworm grows to twelve feet and can weigh a pound and a half. |
17-02-2007, 09:14 AM
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I have heard that a pregnant Rabbit will 'ingest' her young if there wouldnt be enough to feed them. Does anyone know if this is so?
jaki
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17-02-2007, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet I have heard that a pregnant Rabbit will 'ingest' her young if there wouldnt be enough to feed them. Does anyone know if this is so?
jaki | Hi Jaki,
Sorry I can't help with you're question, but apparently an octopus
will eat it's own arms if it gets really hungry 
Ian
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17-02-2007, 09:54 AM
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A group of Rhinos is called a crash.
Ian.
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17-02-2007, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet I have heard that a pregnant Rabbit will 'ingest' her young if there wouldnt be enough to feed them. Does anyone know if this is so?
jaki | Yes.
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17-02-2007, 03:28 PM
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The saying 'bald as a coot' stems from the coot's white frontal plate
and Did you know.....
The name “toadstool” might make you think that toadstools got their name from being a piece of amphibian poo, but in fact “tod-stuhl” is a German name, which means “seat of death”!
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17-02-2007, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher Or football, because they don't understand the offside rule. (I do! ) | I can't wait to hear this one.......
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17-02-2007, 09:53 PM
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Ducks have webbed hands to prevent them from smoking cigarettes |
17-02-2007, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie Ducks have webbed hands to prevent them from smoking cigarettes | On form tonight then Boddie
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17-02-2007, 09:59 PM
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A zebra is white with black stripes |
17-02-2007, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher If you ate the liver from a polar bear, you would die of iodine poisoning. | All polar bears are left handed |
17-02-2007, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie Monkies can't play golf because the limited use of their thumb prevents them from employing the Vardon grip | rats on the other hand have completely opposable thumbs and thus could play golf if they werent banned from the course for being of a lower social tone
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17-02-2007, 10:19 PM
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Crocodiles cry when killing their pray |
17-02-2007, 10:34 PM
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the male paper nautilus has detachable bits which swim off in search of a female on their own
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17-02-2007, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Boddie Ducks have webbed hands to prevent them from smoking cigarettes | Did they ever find Bob Monkhouse's missing jokebook | |
