A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die. However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats that they like in exchange for grooming.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Dogs have been man's pet for over 14,000 years.
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Travis was a chimpanzee who socialized with humans since birth. He could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch TV using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner's horses, water plants, and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
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