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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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