When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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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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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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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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