When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
19
Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
8
There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
40
The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
9
In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
41
It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
217