The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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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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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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