Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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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.
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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 and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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