The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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Mosquitoes don't just bite you, they also pee on you.
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The Jewel Wasp injects a drug into a cockroach’s brain, turns it into a zombie, rides it like a horse back to its burrow, and then lets its hatched larvae feed on the cockroaches body from the inside.
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Placing alcohol on a scorpion's back will make it go crazy and fatally sting itself.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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