When the "Elephant Whisperer" Lawrence Anthony died, a whole herd of elephants arrived at his house to mourn him.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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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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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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Lobsters have blue blood.
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