Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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A newborn Chinese water deer is so small, it can (almost) be held in the palm of a hand.
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All pandas are ‘owned’ by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years.
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Squirrels will sometimes adopt orphaned baby squirrels that they’re related to.
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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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When a male gentoo penguin "falls in love" with a female penguin, he searches the entire beach to find the perfect pebble to present to her.
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There's a competition in Sweden called Kaninhoppning, or rabbit show jumping.
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The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.
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