The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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