In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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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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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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