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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Sharks have been on the planet longer than trees.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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The two oldest cats on record lived to 38 and 34 years old, both were owned by the same owner and lived off a diet of bacon, eggs, broccoli and coffee.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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