A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and then he dies.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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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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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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