In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
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