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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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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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