<intro name="Forest Elephants" pic="content\animals\forest_elephant.jpg">Elephants have always been divided into two species - African and Asian. However, scientists have now discovered there are two distinct types of the creature in Africa: the savanna elephant and the forest elephant.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\forest_elephant.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Single male <br/>forest elephants<br/>recognise each <br/>other with their<br/>sense of smell<br/>rather than sight.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\forest_elephant.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Single male <br/>forest elephants <br/>are solitary but<br/>socialise in jungle<br/>clearings.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\forest_elephant.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Forest elephants <br/>eat leaves, bark,<br/>grasses and fruit.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\forest_elephant.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>Forest elephants <br/>will dig deep into <br/>jungle mud to find <br/>salt and other<br/>minerals to<br/>supplement their diet.</fact>
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<intro name="Jaguars" pic="content\animals\jaguar_bigger.jpg">A sleek and powerful predator, the jaguar is closely related to the lion, tiger and leopard. It lives mainly in the rain forests of South and Central America and is the biggest and most powerful member of the cat family in the Western Hemisphere.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Pound for pound,<br/>the jaguar is the<br/>strongest animal<br/>in the world.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Jaguars kill their<br/>prey by biting <br/>into its skull <br/>rather than <br/>strangling with a <br/>throat hold.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Jaguars eat on <br/>average 10-20 <br/>pounds of food every <br/>day</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>Young jaguars <br/>are born blind <br/>but can see <br/>after two weeks.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>Jaguars can live <br/>as far south as <br/>Patagonia and as far <br/>north as the United States. </fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\jaguar.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>Jaguars <br/>occasionally kill <br/>cattle and so <br/>are sometimes <br/>shot by ranchers.</fact>
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<intro name="Leopards" pic="content\animals\leopard.jpg">The leopard is one of the four big cats and lives exclusively in Africa and southern Asia. It is a stealthy creature, very skilled in camouflage, and because of this can live undetected very near to humans. There are around 500,000 leopards in the world today.</intro>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\leopard.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>The average <br/>leopard in the <br/>wild lives from<br/>10-15 years but<br/>in captivity they can <br/>live as long as 20 years.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\leopard.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Leopard cubs <br/>open their eyes <br/>after around 10 days <br/>and are independent of their mothers after approximately 18 to 24 months. </fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\leopard.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>A leopard can <br/>climb trees <br/>carrying prey bigger <br/>than themselves.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\leopard.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>It was originally <br/>believed wrongly <br/>that a leopard <br/>was a cross <br/>between a lion and a panther.</fact>
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<intro name="Crocodiles" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Crocodiles are large aquatic reptiles that live and hunt in slow moving rivers and lakes. They have extremely powerful jaws and sharp teeth and are very fast over short distances, making them extremely dangerous to fish and land animals including humans.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Crocodiles kill <br/>hundreds of <br/>people each year <br/>in Asia and Africa.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Nile crocodiles <br/>can hold their<br/>breath for up<br/>to two hours.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>They have the <br/>most highly <br/>developed brains <br/>of all reptiles.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>They cannot stick <br/>out their tongues <br/>unlike humans, <br/>their entire tongue <br/>is attached to the <br/>bottom of their mouth.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\crocodile.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>Crocodiles have <br/>been around for <br/>more than <br/>200 million years.</fact>
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<intro name="Tigers" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Tigers are the biggest wild cats in the world. These super predators lives in forests or grasslands, with 80% of them concentrated on the Indian sub continent. The largest tigers can weigh 360 kg, grow up to six feet long and have a two foot long tail!</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>There are five<br/>species of tiger: <br/>Bengal, <br/>South China, <br/>Indochinese, <br/>Sumatran and Siberian.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Tigers living in <br/>cold areas are <br/>bigger and <br/>heavier than those <br/>in tropical habitats.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Tigers are <br/>powerful <br/>swimmers and <br/>have even been<br/>known to ambush fishermen!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>Tigers never<br/>hunt humans <br/>except in <br/>desperation.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>Tigers can leap<br/>as high as <br/>five metres and <br/>as far as ten metres.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\tiger.jpg">Fact 7<br/><br/>Tigers bones are <br/>used illegally <br/>in Chinese <br/>medicine.</fact>
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<intro name="Frogs" pic="content\animals\frogs_bigger.jpg">Frogs have long hind legs with elongated anklebones, which makes them excellent at jumping. They have webbed toes and breathe mainly through their skin, which must be moist at all times. The 5,250 known different species of frogs range in size from 10mm to 300mm.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>West AfricaΓÇÖs <br/>Goliath frog is <br/>the worldΓÇÖs largest,<br/>growing to almost<br/>a foot long.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>The leaf litter<br/>frog, found in <br/>Cuba, is so small <br/>is can fit on<br/>a 5p piece.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>As frogs grow,<br/>they shed their<br/>skins. They<br/>loosen the skin,<br/>pull it over their<br/>heads like a sweater <br/>ΓÇô and then eat it!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>The North<br/>American wood <br/>frog spends two<br/>or three months<br/>frozen each year. Its breathing and heartbeat stop, and the water in its body turns to ice.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>The golden<br/>poison-dart frog <br/>contains enough <br/>toxins to kill<br/>20,000 mice ΓÇô or eight humans.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\frogs.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>The gliding tree<br/>frog of Costa Rica<br/>jumps from trees <br/>using the webs <br/>beneath its toes <br/>as miniature parachutes! It can glide in the air for nearly 50 feet.</fact>
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<intro name="Spiders" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals with eight legs, eight eyes and no chewing mouth-parts. They hunt by spinning webs to track insects, weaving them in a silk that is five times stronger than steel. Spiders inject venom to kill their prey ΓÇô and a few are so dangerous that their bite can hurt, or even kill, humans.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Some spiders eat <br/>their webs and <br/>reweave them up <br/>to five times a day.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>On average, <br/>spiders eat 15% of <br/>their own body weight <br/>every single day</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>There are 37,000 <br/>known spider <br/>species in <br/>existence, of which <br/>10,000 build webs.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>The worldΓÇÖs <br/>biggest spider, <br/>the Goliath<br/>birdeater tarantula<br/>of South America, <br/>is as big as a dinner plate <br/>and has been known to snatch birds from their nests.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>The worldΓÇÖs <br/>smallest spider, <br/>a mygalomorph <br/>spider from Borneo, <br/>has a body the size of <br/>a pinhead.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\spiders.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>In the South<br/>Pacific, people <br/>make fishing nets <br/>from spidersΓÇÖ silk.</fact>
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<intro name="Insects" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth. There are more than 925,000 identified species of insect ΓÇô more than all other types of animal combined. Insect means ΓÇ£cut into sectionsΓÇ¥ in Latin, and all insect species have one thing in common ΓÇô they are invertebrates, meaning that they have no backbone.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Almost one of <br/>every four animal<br/>species known on<br/>Earth is a beetle.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Male moths can <br/>detect the <br/>pheromones of <br/>female moths <br/>from many miles away.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>An equatorial <br/>rain forest study <br/>concluded that <br/>one hectare of <br/>forest contains 42,000 different insect species.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>72 different <br/>species of ant <br/>were found living <br/>on one tree in the<br/>Amazon basin in Peru.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>America's <br/>monarch <br/>butterflies<br/>migrate south <br/>2,000miles to their <br/>winter retreat.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\insects.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>The praying<br/>mantis was <br/>introduced to<br/>America from <br/>Europe and China <br/>around 1900 to help to control garden pests.</fact>
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<intro name="Monkeys" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Monkeys are simian primates who are different from apes such as chimpanzees and gibbons. Monkeys who live in North and South America are called New World monkeys, while those in Africa, Asia and Europe are known as Old World monkeys.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>KenyaΓÇÖs Patas <BR/>monkeys are <BR/>the worldΓÇÖs fastest<br/>primates, running <BR/>up to 34mph.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>The Japanese<br/>macaque is the <BR/>farthest <BR/>north-dwelling <BR/>monkey, and has long <BR/>shaggy hair to protect it from the cold.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Most monkeys <BR/>are active during<br/>the day, but a <BR/>few are nocturnal.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>A group of<br/>monkeys is <BR/>called a mission,<br/>or a tribe.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\monkeys.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>When Britain<br/>first began to<br/>explore Africa, <BR/>young monkeys<br/>were often captured <BR/>and taken on board ships to amuse sailors.</fact>
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<intro name="Parrots" pic="content\animals\parrots.jpg">Parrots are brightly coloured birds with distinctive curved beaks, four toes on each foot and an erect stance. The more than 350 different species are found in most warm parts of the world, including India, South East Asia and Africa, but most are originally from Australasia, South America and Central America.</intro>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\parrots.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>Male and female<br/>macaws look <BR/>so alike that <BR/>scientists can<br/>only tell them apart<br/>during breeding and nesting.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\parrots.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Large macaws in <BR/>the wild that <BR/>survive their first<br/>year live to the age <BR/>of 30-45. In captivity, <BR/>they often live until 70.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\parrots.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>New ZealandΓÇÖs<br/>kakapo is the<br/>worldΓÇÖs only <BR/>flightless parrot <br/>and, at eight pounds, <BR/>it is also the heaviest.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\parrots.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>Escaped parrots<br/>can upset <BR/>local ecosystems <BR/>if they become <BR/>established in the wild.</fact>
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<intro name="Snakes" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Snakes are cold-blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards. They are carnivorous, eating small animals, birds, rodents, eggs, lizards and even other snakes. Most snakes live on the land, moving by flexing their bodies from side-to-side, but sea snakes dwell in shallow tropical oceans.</intro>
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<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 1<br/><br/>Snakes have no <BR/>external ears but<br/>a bone under the <BR/>skin on either<br/>side of the head <BR/>responds to vibrations.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 2<br/><br/>SnakesΓÇÖ skin is <BR/>covered in scales <BR/>and their<br/>transparent eyelids<br/>are permanently<br/>closed.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 3<br/><br/>Snakes shed <BR/>their skin <BR/>periodically ΓÇô itΓÇÖs <BR/>rather like <BR/>taking off a sock!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 4<br/><br/>The worldΓÇÖs<br/>longest <BR/>venomous snake, <br/>Ophiophagus <BR/>Hannah, can kill an <BR/>elephant with a single bite.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 5<br/><br/>The uninhabited <BR/>Brazilian island <BR/>of Queimada <br/>Grande has one <BR/>poisonous golden <br/>lancehead snake for every square metre!</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 6<br/><br/>The paradise<br/>tree snake is <BR/>able to ΓÇ£glideΓÇ¥ <BR/>through the air <BR/>from tree to tree, <BR/>high above the ground.</fact>
<fact name="" pic="content\animals\snakes.jpg">Fact 7<br/><br/>The worldΓÇÖs <BR/>smallest snake <BR/>is thought to be a <BR/>Martinique thread <BR/>snake which grows to <br/>only four inches in length.</fact>
