Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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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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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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