The elephant shrew’s closest relative isn’t a shrew — it’s actually an elephant
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It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box and even flush afterwards.
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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Nervous dogs wag their tails to the left, and happy dogs to the right (from the dog’s point of view) – and fellow canines pick up on this lop-sided tail language.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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