If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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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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