Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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