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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Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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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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It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the average human body of blood.
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