A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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