One in three dog owners say they have talked to their pets on the phone.
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There was a bear called Wojtek who was adopted by Polish soldiers during WW2. It carried ammunition, wrestled with soldiers, and drank beer.
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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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Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen.
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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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15% of snails survive digestion by birds and are found alive in their droppings, potentially leading to the spread of snail populations.
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