In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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