When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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The energy of a discharge of an electric eel could start 50 cars.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, can grow over 13 inches in length and can jump up to 10 feet in a single bound.
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