Random Animal Facts

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    Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.
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    The Firefly Is Not a Fly
    The firefly is not actually a fly, but a beetle.
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    Lobsters have blue blood.
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    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    Rescued Penguin Returns Every Year
    In 2011, a penguin covered in oil and starving on a beach near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was rescued by a pensioner. Ever since then, Dindim the penguin travels 5,000 miles every year to visit him.
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    There's a phone app called RoboRoach that allows you to remotely control a cockroach through a chip that you to manually implant into the unwitting critter.
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    Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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    The oldest known animal in the world was 'Ming' the 405 year old clam, discovered in 2007.
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    Alligators can live up to 100 years.
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