Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
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The Basenji dog is the only dog that is not able to bark.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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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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There’s a bonobo named Kanzi who has learned to build a campfire and cook his own food.
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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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