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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Dolphins have names for one another.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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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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