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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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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