Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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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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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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