There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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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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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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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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