Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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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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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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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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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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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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