Random Animal Facts

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    Swimming Pigs
    Swimming Pigs
    There's an island in the Bahamas called Big Major Cay (or Pig Beach), which is only inhabited by swimming pigs.
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    Using a remote-controlled camera, biologists caught dolphins getting high by sucking on puffer fish. They were even caught passing the puffer fish around.
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    Octopuses enter a dementia-like state after breeding, forget what happened
    After octopuses breed, they develop dementia. They then live the rest of their lives in this confused, seemingly lost state, with apparently no knowledge of previous events.
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    Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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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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    Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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    The largest earthworm on record was found in South Africa and measured 22 feet.
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    A cat can jump FIVE TIMES as high as it is tall!
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