The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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