Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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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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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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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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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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