Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
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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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