Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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