When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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