When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!
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On some poorly researched trivia lists it is stated as a fact that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit. This is not true as goldfish lay eggs.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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