In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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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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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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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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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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