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function getaQuote()
{
 var maxQuotes=95;
 var whichQuote=get_random(maxQuotes);
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var quote=new Array(maxQuotes)
quote[0]="The earthworm moves by swimming through its own mucous secretions.";
quote[1]="Walrus teeth never stop growing. Their teeth never wear out despite of the walrus's constant gnawing.";
quote[2]="The male opossum has a forked penis that fits the female opossum's two-chambered vagina.";
quote[3]="The armadillo is the only animal in the world that almost always bears identical quadruplets.";
quote[4]="During warm weather the hippopotamus secrets a red, oily liquid which serves as waterproofing.";
quote[5]="Camels can tolerate as much as a ten-degree change in their body temperature and endure dehydration up to as much as 40 percent of their body weight.";
quote[6]="The llama defends itself by accurately spitting irritating saliva at its attacker.";
quote[7]="Monkeys are the only mammals who see the same colors as humans do.";
quote[8]="The cow digests its food in a multi-staged stomach and through a process of regurgitating and re-swallowing its partially digested food.";
quote[9]="Bats navigate using a sonar-like guidance system. Their supersonic chirps echo off objects in their path. Bats use the sound of the echoes to see.";
quote[10]="The vampire bat introduces an anti-clotting agent into the blood of its host when feeding. This keeps the host's blood from clotting while the bat drinks.";
quote[11]="The beaver slaps its flat tail on the water surface, which makes a loud, unmistakable sound. Beavers use this sound as a signal of impending danger.";
quote[12]="The female porcupine shows that she accepts a male as her mate by flattening her quills close to her body so as not to injure her partner as they mate.";
quote[13]="Shrews fight simply for the pleasure of it. When they can't find other animals to fight, they fight with each other.";
quote[14]="Moles have sensory hairs on their nose and feet which help prevent them from bumping into the walls of their tunnels.";
quote[15]="The hedgehog strikes a poisonous snake, then spins 180 degrees to expose its quills in defense, should the snake strike back.";
quote[16]="The whale has a fine-mesh food strainer in its mouth which allows it to shovel in food and separate it from the water as it swims through schools of small fish.";
quote[17]="Relatively smaller in young elephants, the trunk grows proportionally larger as the elephant learns to use it.";
quote[18]="The skunk's repugnant secretions are deodorized and used in some perfumes.";
quote[19]="The raccoon washes its food, not to clean the food, but because it apparently likes the feel of meat in water.";
quote[20]="The male fur seal keeps more mates than any other animal--an average of 40 to 60 females.";
quote[21]="The fairy tern builds no nest. The mother incubates her egg by carefully balancing it and herself on tree branches.";
quote[22]="The goose lines its nest with its own breast feathers.";
quote[23]="The albatross increases egg production when its hatched eggs are destroyed by predators.";
quote[24]="The male phalarope incubates its mate's eggs, driven by a breast irritation which the incubation process relieves.";
quote[25]="The Pacific golden plover migrates from Siberia to Hawaii--the longest, nonstop transoceanic flight of any bird.";
quote[26]="An ostrich will drop and feign a larger size in order to avert a threat. As soon as it sees its ploy has worked, it flees.";
quote[27]="The ostrich, like many other birds, swallows pebbles which aid the digestion of its food.";
quote[28]="Penguins drink sea water and excrete the excess salt using special filtering glands in their nasal passages.";
quote[29]="Sallow nestlings are 25% larger than their parents. Their large size and stored body fat helps ease the sudden transition from dependence to independence when their parents fly away.";
quote[30]="Penguins establish common burial grounds, the only such phenomenon in the animal world, except for humans.";
quote[31]="Cormorants fish for the sheer pleasure of it. They 53have been trained to fish for humans.";
quote[32]="The jaçana appears to run on water by stepping on submerged vegetation. Its oversized feet can momentarily alight on more than one plant at a time to distribute its weight.";
quote[33]="When a yellow warbler discovers the egg of an alien bird in her nest,  she conceals it by building a new nest on top of the trespasser's egg.";
quote[34]="The dipper flies under water just as in air. Its thick and tightly fitting feathers prevent the dipper from getting wet.";
quote[35]="The spitting cobra forces its venom through an outlet in the front of its fangs. The venom channel descends the fang and turns abruptly, creating the force necessary to project the venom.";
quote[36]="Toads swell up when about to be eaten, making it difficult  for a predator to swallow them.";
quote[37]="The hog-nosed snake deflates toads, which swell up in defense, with a special tooth at the rear of its mouth.";
quote[38]="Snakes move by using plates on their stomach. The plates catch on rocks, twigs, and other obstructions, which the snake uses for traction.";
quote[39]="When they are not in water, sea turtles are safer on their backs. Their under-shell is not strong enough to protect their inner organs from the weight of their body.";
quote[40]="The soft-shell turtle breathes under water by pumping water in and out of its throat which is richly supplied with oxygen-absorbing blood vessels. Some turtles use a similar arrangement in the rear of their bodies.";
quote[41]="The alligator snapper turtle attracts fish by displaying a red filament on its tongue.";
quote[42]="The flying tree frog uses its webbed feet as a parachute.";
quote[43]="The frog's mouth contains air sacs which amplify its voice.";
quote[44]="A frog's mouth and nostrils close to allow it to sing under water.";
quote[45]="Salmon find the stream in which they were born using their keen sense of smell and the scent memory of their birthplace.";
quote[46]="The bifocal lenses of the four-eyed fish allow it to see simultaneously above and below the water. The bottom half of each eye sees clearly underwater, the top sees clearly above.";
quote[47]="The flounder has the most versatile camouflage coloring of all fish. It can match, for example, the pattern of a checkerboard.";
quote[48]="The electric catfish shocks other fish, which makes them regurgitate their food. The electric catfish then eats the result.";
quote[49]="The stickleback secrets a waterproof adhesive which it uses to create the hollow structure on which it builds its nest. in which it lives.";
quote[50]="The climbing perch uses spines on its gill covers to climb trees. Its gills also allow it to breath air for a short time.";
quote[51]="The archer fish spits water pellets to shoot down its flying insect prey.";
quote[52]="The lamprey is able to climb waterfalls by clinging to the vertical walls under the falls with its sucker mouth.";
quote[53]="When some ants bite, they lock their jaws permanently. Humans have used such ants to suture wounds.";
quote[54]="The scale insect secrets a substance which turns white and flaky when it meets the air. In some desert areas these flakes become quite large and are eaten by humans.";
quote[55]="The bola spider fishes the air for insect prey with its own secreted line at the end of which is a sticky snare. The spider casts and snares insects in mid air.";
quote[56]="The spider spins a silk thread which is proportionally stronger than steel and one of the strongest materials known. It can stretch 20 percent of its original length before breaking.";
quote[57]="The scorpion is immune to its own poison.";
quote[58]="The squid moves by the jet propulsion created as it quickly collapses an internal air chamber and shoots out a stream of water.";
quote[59]="Snails about to mate shoot needle-like darts at each other. After shooting each other, they mate.";
quote[60]="Clams stimulate a sexual response in male perch. Females lay their eggs in open clams. Males deposit semen on the eggs, stimulated not by the females but by the clams.";
quote[61]="The highly structured pecking order in chicken society prevents aggression, eases social tension, and promotes harmony.";
quote[62]="The Malayan mantis mimics an orchid, then traps and eats its visitors. The same disguise conceals it from predators.";
quote[63]="Bees communicate the location of food sources by dancing. Their movements spell out the direction and distance of food from the hive.";
quote[64]="The gypsy moth excretes an alcoholic substance to attract its mates from as far away as three miles.";
quote[65]="The killdeer feigns injury to divert attention and lead a predator away from its young. After leading the predator far enough away from its young, the killdeer escapes.";
quote[66]="To locate each other, firefly males flash in unison while females flash out of sync and with a dimmer light.";
quote[67]="Young wildebeest males run in bachelor herds but each male sets up a special place of his own to attract females. Females will not mate with a male who does not have his own place.";
quote[68]="The male Australian bower bird builds an attractive twig structure to attract its mate. He decorates it with brightly colored found materials.";
quote[69]="The carrier pigeon uses the stars to navigate at night.";
quote[70]="Moths escape bats by jamming bat sonar with a similar sound.";
quote[71]="The jackrabbit's large ears serve as blood-cooling system.";
quote[72]="The vulture cools itself by urinating on its own legs.";
quote[73]="Grouse fool their predators by flashing and then concealing their bright white underwings.";
quote[74]="African wood snakes repel predators with their blood-red eyes and bleeding mouth.";
quote[75]="The skink lizard dislodges and drops its tail to fool its predators.";
quote[76]="Shrews form caravans by linking their bodies, mouth to tail.";
quote[77]="Lions yawn to oxygenate their blood. As one lion in a group yawn, others soon follow suit. Among lions, their manes, not their size, determine their social rank.";
quote[78]="Elephants greet and identify one another by taking the other's trunk tip in their mouth. They identify each other by taste and smell.";
quote[79]="When sleeping, zebras assign sentinel to alert the group to danger. Zebras sleep with their legs tucked underneath, ready for instant flight.";
quote[80]="The rhinoceros spends most of its time alone, but before leaving a community of rhinos, each scrapes a hind foot through the group dung pile. This way it leaves a scent track to aid others who may want to find it.";
quote[81]="The giraffe uses an elastic, one-way valve in its neck to prevent excessive blood flow to its head when it lowers its head to drink water.";
quote[82]="In order to fly the flamingo runs along the ground to build up to flight speed before it takes off.";
quote[83]="Peacocks preen their feathers using oil from a special gland at the base of their tails. They will often preen for hours.";
quote[84]="Young komodo monitors roll in the guts of their kill. This makes it easier for the komodo to follow the scent and find the kill again if it chased away while eating.";
quote[85]="Dolphins swim in a circular formation, creating a protective pen for their young.";
quote[86]="The dolphin never sleeps, but rests by closing down one-half of its brain at a time.";
quote[87]="Sea lions build tightly packed groups. Members must climb over each other to move around the group.";
quote[88]="Wolves sing in harmony to communicate over long distances.";
quote[89]="Eagle pairs perform airborne cartwheels in their courting dance. Couples lock talons, free fall thousands of feet, and fly safely apart just before crashing to the ground.";
quote[90]="The beluga whale reduces travel friction by constantly shedding its skin and forming a lubricant layer.";
quote[91]="The polar bear finds fresh water in the old ice of sea water. They drink from the freshwater surface puddles of melted sea ice, its salt having migrated downward and away.";
quote[92]="A penguin's black-and-white tuxedo color pattern perfectly adapts it to a water-air environment. As it swims, its black back absorbs heat from the sun and its white belly looks like the sky to predators.";
quote[93]="African buffalo graze with giraffes to exploit their high periscope-like vantage point.";
quote[94]="Herons perch on the backs of Zebras and serve as their sentries.";
quote[95]="Ants and greenflies cooperate to extract food from plants. The flies extract protein from plant juices. When the ants tap their backs, the flies excrete a thick, syrupy food for the ants. The ants also protect the flies from predators.";
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