Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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The Hercules beetle, despite weighing only 100 grams, can lift 8 kilograms, making it one of the proportionally strongest animals in the world.
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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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During World War 1, starving wolves amassed in such great numbers that Germans and Russians had a temporary cease fire to fight off the wolf attacks.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
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A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
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