The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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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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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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