The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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The octopus does not have a blind spot.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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