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Mammal Lives
Shortest life
The tiny shrew has the shortest life-span of all the mammals. Most ...
Cats and dogs
Domestic cats usually live longer than dogs. The oldest cat was ...
Amazing But True
Lemmings are small, hamster-like rodents from Norway. Their lives ...
Life on the wing
Bats normally live for 10-20 years. The oldest bat known is an Indian ...
Ancient Nero
Nero, a lion in the Cologne Zoo, West Germany, died at the age of 29 ...
Oldest horse
The oldest known horse was born in 1760 and died at the age of 62 in ...
DID YOU KNOW?
The oldest ape was a male orang-utan called Guas in the Philadelphia ...
Sea life
Baird's beaked whale is the longest-living sea mammal known. It can ...
Grand old age
The mammal which lives the longest, after man, is the Asian elephant. ...