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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Dogs sometimes fake being sick to get attention.
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The difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of living tissue and bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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Camels and llamas can cross breed. The offspring is called a ‘Cama’.
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Moths are unable to fly during an earthquake.
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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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It has been calculated that a single breath from a mature blue whale can inflate up to 2,000 balloons.
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The sound of a tiger's roar can travel a distance of up to 2 miles (~3 km).
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