A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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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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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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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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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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