Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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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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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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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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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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