In order to enhance the taste, Japanese macaque wash their food in salt water before they eat. They also make snowballs for fun!
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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