Jumping fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than the space shuttle.
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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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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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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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