Elephants are terrified of Bees and actually have a special, distinct vocalization for “Run away the Bees are angry”
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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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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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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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