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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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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Jellyfish as a species are actually older than dinosaurs and sharks.
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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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One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.
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Dolphins have names for one another.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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