Honey hunters in Mozambique recruit birds known as honeyguides to help locate beehives. In return for the bird’s services, they receive leftover beeswax.

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A reindeer’s eyes change colors through the seasons. They are gold during the summer and blue in the winter.

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While many aquariums feature different species of sharks, Great White sharks do not survive in captivity.

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The most common wild bird in the world isn’t the sparrow or blue jay—it’s the red-billed quelea, which live in Africa and have an estimated population of 1.5 billion.

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Wombats are the only animal whose poop is cube-shaped. This is due to how its intestines form the feces. The animals then stack the cubes to mark their territory.

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Ed note: It is rumored that one human being rolls his into a ball. It is not known if it is to mark his territory.

A Velociraptor was actually the size of a turkey.

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Dogs can learn up to 250 words and gestures.

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An ant can’t die from falling.

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Cats used to be delivered by mail in Belgium.

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