Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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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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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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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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