By putting a frog in a bucket of milk, scientists following up on an ancient Russian way of keeping milk from going sour have identified a wealth of new antibiotic substances.
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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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Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Parrot parents "name" their children with a signature call.
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Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
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Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love "Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men". The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness, and was even a turn on for one pair of Jaguars who were subject to it.
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