Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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A giraffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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