In 2011, a male tiger in India adopted a litter of orphaned cubs, taking on the role of ‘mother’. Wildlife officials say such behavior had never been observed before.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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The station master and operating officer at the Kishi Station, Japan, is a cat!
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When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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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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Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow can be used to graft human bones.
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