The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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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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A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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