The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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Bats sleep 18-20 hours per day.
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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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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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