In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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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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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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