Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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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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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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