Random Animal Facts

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    Ant Graveyard
    Ant Graveyard
    Ants have graveyards.
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    The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    In 2011, a penguin covered in oil and starving on a beach near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was rescued by a pensioner. Ever since then, Dindim the penguin travels 5,000 miles every year to visit him.
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    Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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    Russian Bear Dog
    Russian Bear Dog
    Caucasian Mountain Dog (aka Russian Bear Dog) males reach over 200lb and have historically been used to hunt bears.
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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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    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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    Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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