Random Animal Facts

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    Sloth Poop Dance
    Sloth Poop Dance
    Sloths only poop once a week. The event is called 'the poo dance' because they wiggle their butts.
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    A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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    Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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    The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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    Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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    The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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    During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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