Random Animal Facts

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    Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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    The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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    Two dogs were among the Titanic survivors.
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    The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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    Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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    Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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    A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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