Dolphins have names for one another.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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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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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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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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