Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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In 2005, in Africa, it was reported that three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl from kidnappers and guarded her for half a day until help came.
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