When dragonflies mate, their tails form a love heart.
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Whales and dolphins can't taste anything other than salt.
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The colossal squid has the largest eyes 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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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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Cats are one of the only animals to domesticate themselves and approach humans on their own terms.
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