Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Meysi is one of the world's smallest dogs, measuring in at just 7cm tall, 12cm long, and weighing a meagre 250 grams (only slightly heavier than a hamster!)
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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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In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
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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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