Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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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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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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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
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The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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