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Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public spoken by the animals.

September 9, 2011 – 6:01 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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An exoskeleton is the external skeleton that supports and protects an animals body, in contrast to the internal skeleton (endoskeleton) of, for example a human.

September 7, 2011 – 11:41 am | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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Critter wines is a term used to denote wine that are primarily from the new world that use animals in their marketing.

April 19, 2010 – 6:59 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts, Term | Comments (0)
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Spraying (also known as territorial marking) is behavior used by animals to identify their territory.

April 16, 2010 – 8:50 am | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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The Ashmole Bestiary (Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511) is a late 12th or early 13th century English illuminated manuscript Bestiary containing a creation story and detailed allegorical descriptions of over 100 animals.

April 16, 2010 – 5:18 am | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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This article describes the health implications of sexual contact with animals (see: Zoophilia).

April 15, 2010 – 3:22 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is a Gram-negative bacterium which primarily causes disease in animals; humans occasionally get infected zoonotically, most often through the food-borne route.

April 15, 2010 – 3:21 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts, Route | Comments (0)
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Free-living amoebae (or “FLA”) in the Amoebozoa group are important causes of disease in humans and animals.

April 15, 2010 – 3:20 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts, Group | Comments (0)
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Monkeypox virus is the virus that causes the disease monkeypox in both humans and animals.

April 15, 2010 – 6:35 am | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts | Comments (0)
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A bag limit is a law imposed on hunters and fishermen restricting the number of animals within a specific species or group of species they may kill and keep.

April 13, 2010 – 1:00 pm | By fact-o-matic | Posted in Facts, Group, Law, Number | Comments (0)
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