1. Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
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2. Squirrels plant thousands of new trees each year simply by forgetting where they put their acorns.
Irene Mei
3. When playing with female puppies, male puppies will often let them win, even if they have a physical advantage.
Brian Whipple
4. Turtles can breathe through their butts.
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5. Cows have best friends.
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6. Gentoo penguins propose to their lifemates with a pebble.
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7. A prison in Washington pairs up “death row” shelter cats with select inmates as part of a rehabilitation program. It seems to be a pretty wonderful thing for both the inmates and the cats.
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8. Macaques in Japan use coins to buy vending machine snacks.
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9. Norway knighted a penguin.
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10. In China, killing a Panda is punishable by death.
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11. Sweden has a rabbit show-jumping competition called Kaninhoppning.
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12. Pigs’ orgasms last for 30 minutes.
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13. Dolphins have names for each other.
Vitaliy Sokol
14. Puffins mate for life. They make their homes on cliff sides and set aside room for their toilet.
fourteenfoottiger
15. A study measuring the effects of music found that cows produce more milk when listening to soothing music. They produce the most when listening to R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts.”
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16. Oysters can change gender depending on which is best for mating.
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17. Japanese Macaques make snowballs for fun.
Lee Fisher
18. The closest relatives to the elephant shrew are actually elephants, not shrews.
Klaus Wiese
Josef Gelernter
19. A cat version of the corgi exits: the munchkin cat.
Jimmy Leo
20. There is a program that makes prison inmates responsible for training and raising seeing-eye dogs. Many reported that they felt like they were making amends for their past actions by working with the puppies.
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21. Seahorses mate for life, and when they travel they hold each others’ tails.
Georgina Gomez
22. Before chicks hatch, they can communicate with each other and their mother through a system of sounds.
caryn74
23. Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.
Elke Vogelsang
24. Turritopsis nutricula Immortal jellyfish is the only species known to live forever.
Takashi Murai
25. Long-time bird watcher and nature writer Candace Savage has observed that crows are so intelligent they can play pranks on each other.
Lauri Tammik
26. Butterflies taste with their feet.
Chris Spracklen
27. There have been studies that show that goats, like us, have accents.
Jean-Claude Sch.
28. Squirrels will adopt other squirrels babies if they are abandoned.
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Ken Yuel