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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Spiders have transparent blood.
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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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A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
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The cicada, a fly found in Africa, spends 17 years of its life sleeping; and only two weeks is awake during which mates and then dies.
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Snails can live up to 15 years.
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Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
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In Brazil, there's a species of cockroach that eats eyelashes, usually those of young children while they are asleep.
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