The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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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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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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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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