A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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