The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
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A slug has four noses.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Flies are deaf.
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The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its legs.
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Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
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Spider monkeys like banana daiquiris.
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The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.
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