A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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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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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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