Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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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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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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