When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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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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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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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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