When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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