When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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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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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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Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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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 elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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