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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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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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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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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