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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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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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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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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Rattlesnake mating sessions have been known to last more than 22 hours.
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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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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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