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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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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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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