In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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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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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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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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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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