A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
14
A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
23
The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
4
Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
34
The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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