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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A 42-foot sperm whale has about 7 tons of oil in it.
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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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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By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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