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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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