Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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An alligator can go through 2,000 to 3,000 teeth in a lifetime.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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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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