Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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