A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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