Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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A group of pugs is called a grumble.
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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When Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
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Sharks, like other fish, have their reproductive organs in their chests.
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