A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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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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A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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