In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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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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There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.
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The Pistol Shrimp can snap its claws together to create a sound of 218 decibels, louder than as supersonic jet at full speed. It only lasts for 1 millisecond. The snapping action also creates a bubble that is greater than 5000 Kelvin, close to the surface temperature of the sun.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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