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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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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Alligator snapping turtles can live for over 150 years. Scientists know this because some of the turtles had musket balls in their stomachs.
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There's a lizard known as the 'Jesus Lizard' that can run across water.
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In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
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Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
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A puppy is born blind, deaf, and toothless.
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