The Platypus used to be considered a myth like Bigfoot and the Yeti.
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Sandy, an African Penguin, has been in 'love' with her keeper at the Nuremburg zoo since 1996.
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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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Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
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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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An Indian man known as "Snake Manu" can put small snakes, including deadly cobras, into his mouth and pass them out through his nose.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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