Random Animal Facts

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    Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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    Free Willy
    Free Willy
    After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
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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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    The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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    There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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    Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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    Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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    In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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