When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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Elephants are terrified of Bees and actually have a special, distinct vocalization for “Run away the Bees are angry”
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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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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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