Flies are deaf.
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Dogs can make about 100 different facial expressions.
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By feeding hens certain dyes they can be made to lay eggs with multi-colored yolks.
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Maggots will only eat flesh if it is dead. For this reason, they are often used to remove the burnt skin from severe burn patients.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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