Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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