Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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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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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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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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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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