Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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