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Questions

A ---------- can swallow a rabbit whole and may eat as many as 150 mice in a 6-month period.?

A quarter horse gets its name from its speed in running the ----------?

A racehorse averages a weight loss of between 15 and 25 pounds during a ----------?

A rarity in birds, geese are among the very few in which the family stays together at the end of the ---------- season. Parents and the young raised during the summer establish strong family bonds and do not break up for about a year. In the fall, geese migrate in flocks that contain other family units, and each family stays together on the wintering grounds.?

A ---------- can fall from a 5-story building without injury.?