The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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