Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
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Most of a hog's sweat glands are in its snout.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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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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No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
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Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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