Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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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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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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