Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which also increases their senses for hunting.
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Cymothoa exigua is a type of parasite that enters through fish's gills, eats their tongue, and then replaces it.
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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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