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Killer bees

Never get too close to a hive of African “killer” bees. To protect their queen, the bees will swarm and Chase you for morę than 0.6 miles (1 km).

Birds

Flocks of ravens have been known to peck lambs to death. No wonder a group of these birds is known as “an unkindness of ravens!”

Jellyfish

The polluted waters off Tokyo and Sydney attract trillions of jellyfish. It’s easier for them to prey on fish in shallow waters. Bathers beware!

Army ants

These tiny terrors tear apart anything that they meet with their smali but powerful jaws. Army ants on the march can eat a cow in just a few hours.

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The Atlantic palolo is a little, red worm that lives on coral reefs. On one night of the year, all the palolos break in half and send their rear ends up to the surface to breed.

The seas look like spaghetti soup!

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■ Every three or four years, Norwegian lemmings breed so fast that they swarm off in all directions to search for food.

England. In the seaside town of Ramsgate, a new job was created to rid the streets ^ of all the beetle bodies: “Tadybug shoveller.”

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■ Despite the stories, lemming hordes don’t really commit suicide. Some lemmings fali off cliffs, probably by mistake, while others drown if they have to swim too far before reaching new land.

■ The suicide myth is partialy due to a faked 1958 documentary in which a turntable was used to hurl lemmings off a cliff!

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