Tiny animal kingdom: the elephant foetus at 12 months, when it is 18 inches long and weighs approximately 26 lbs. It can use its trunk, and can curl it right up into its mouth and over its head. Inset, the foetus at 16 weeks, the trunk has developed and it is plumpish toward the rear.
Flipping miracle: at 29 weeks the dolphin is moving its eyes and swimming around the womb. At six weeks it can curl its tail fin around its body.
Over just 63 days, the domestic dog foetus will be armed with the tools necessary to survive, including a highly acute sense of smell and the ability to hear sounds far beyond our human range of hearing.
A National Geographic film, via The Daily Mail
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In the Museu de Hisrória Natural, un Maputo, Mozambique, there is a unique colection of elephant foetus, month by month. It has about 12 phoetus. I don´t remember exactly how many they are.
It´s veey impressive.
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