It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!
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There's a young hippo and a 130+ year old tortoise in a Kenyan wildlife preserve who are best friends and they even sleep and play together.
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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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