There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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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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Dolphins can rapidly heal from extreme injuries, such as shark bites, and regenerate their original body shape.
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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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Dolphins sometimes have fun by blowing bubbles and creating rings of air underwater, which they then swim through.
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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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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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