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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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
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