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What interesting fact did you learn today/week?

That zebra stripes and cheetah spots are unique to them like a human's finger prints. Also that mother elephants leave their young with the males and go!  Chameleons walk across the road mimicking a leaf that is being blown about in the breeze so they blend in from pray and they have blackspots on their backs when they are in a scary situation. We saw it crossing the road and the black marks were their so scary for it.  

Impala can give birth pretty much the same day they conceived and the herd give birth altogether. Also the babies can walk pretty much straight away and can be as fast as their mother's with 8 mins of being born. There are 100,000 muscles in an elephants trunk.  

Written by: Yvonne Ayres - UK
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