Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Bats sleep 18-20 hours per day.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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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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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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