The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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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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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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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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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
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