In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Domestic pigs average a top speed of about 11 miles per hour.
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A zoo in China gave a gay penguin couple the opportunity to raise a chick.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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