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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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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