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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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
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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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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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