Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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In Australia, there are spiders big enough to eat snakes.
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Vampire bats adopt orphans, and are one of the few mammals known to risk their own lives to share food with less fortunate roost-mates.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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There is a sea snail that wears a suit of iron plated armor. It is the only known animal to use iron sulphide as skeletal material.
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