When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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The seahorse is the only fish to have a neck.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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