In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland’s was $500 a week.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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