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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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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