Fun Facts The agouti, a rodent from tropical South America
buries Brazil nuts for later use in case it gets hungry. Because
it loses some of the buried nuts, many of the nuts sprout into
trees. That's good for the forest and the agouti can always find
more nuts. Have you heard? Asian elephants have smaller external
ears than African elephants, but Asian elephants hear just as
well as their African cousins. The Baikal seal is the world's
only seal species that lives exclusively in fresh water,
specifically in Asia's Lake Baikal. About a quarter of all the
discovered, described animals on earth are beetles. A cheetah
can sprint up to 70 miles per hour, and never get a speeding
ticket! At top speed, the cat's is completely free of the ground
most of the time. Elephants can communicate with each other over
a distance of six miles by broadcasting deep, low frequency,
rumbling sounds. The Asian elephant has a finger-like tip on the
end of its trunk; the African elephant has two. These trunk tips
can pick up objects