Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect - typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40 years!
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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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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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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