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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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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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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