Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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