Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
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Dire wolves actually existed, living up to 10,000 years ago before going extinct.
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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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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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Baks the blind boxer has a seeing eye goose named Buttons; a four-year-old goose who leads the pup around everywhere either by hanging onto him with her neck, or by honking to tell him which way to go.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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