Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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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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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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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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Dolphins have names for one another.
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