Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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An average cat has 1-8 kittens per litter and can have 2-3 litters per year. During her productive life, one female cat could have more than 100 kittens. A single pair of cats and their kittens can produce as many as 420,000 kittens in just 7 years.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Urechis unicinctus is a species of marine spoon worm that is widely referred to as the ‘penis fish’.
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