Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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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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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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