When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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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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The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2 million.
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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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Crows living in some urban areas drop nuts into traffic to let the passing cars crush them, then they wait for the red lights to stop the traffic so they can grab and eat it.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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