Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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