Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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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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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.
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