The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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