Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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