The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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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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Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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