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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Dolphins have names for one another.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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