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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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
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In the movie 'The Wizard Of Oz', Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland’s was $500 a week.
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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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Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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