When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The elephant brain weighs about 6,000g.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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