In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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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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