A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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A group of pugs is called a grumble.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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