In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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The reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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