In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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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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