The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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