Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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