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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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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