Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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