Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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The seahorse is the only fish to have a neck.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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