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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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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