It has been estimated that a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball.
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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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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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The oldest recorded elephant lived for 82 years.
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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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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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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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