The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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A group of kittens is called a "kindle".
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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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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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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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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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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