A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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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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A group of pugs is called a grumble.
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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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