The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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A scorpion can hold its breath for up to 6 days.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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