Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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