In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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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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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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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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