A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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