No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
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It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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A queen bee uses her stinger only to sting another queen bee.
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Cats make over 100 different vocal sounds; dogs can make about ten.
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When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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