Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box and even flush afterwards.
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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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