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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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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Some older/less efficient worker termites will develop 'backpacks' of toxic chemicals that explode when the termite is threatened. They are essentially used as suicide bombers when the colony is being attacked.
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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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 head of a jellyfish is called the "Bell."
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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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