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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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The most expensive dog in the world is the Tibetan Mastiff; worth $1.5 million.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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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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Early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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