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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In 1955, the citizens of São Paulo were so upset with their government that they elected a rhinoceros named Cacareco (meaning rubbish) to the city council in protest, with over 100,000 votes.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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A lion in the wild usually makes no more than twenty kills a year.
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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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The cat brain weighs about 30g.
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