A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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The head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."
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