In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water
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A male baboon can kill a leopard.
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At one 'feeding', a mosquito can absorb one and a half times its own weight in blood.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Some farmers in Kenya are using elephants' natural fear of bees and building "beehive fences" that keep wild elephants from trampling the crops. It keeps the farms safe, and prevents farmers from having to kill elephants to defend their livelihood!
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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